Overview
- The session is a vista previa that will set procedural terms before any trial in the corruption case tied to pandemic mask purchases.
- Prosecutors accuse the former transport minister and his ex-adviser of steering contracts to Soluciones de Gestión, linked to businessman Víctor de Aldama.
- Both men have been held in preventive custody at Madrid’s Soto del Real prison since November 27.
- The court plans to hear defense bids to annul the case, including claims about unreturned seized devices and alleged investigative overreach beyond the masks contracts.
- Press reports indicate potential prison exposure of about 24 years for José Luis Ábalos and 19 years for Koldo García if they are convicted.