Now the judge of the National Court Santiago Pedraz must decide whether or not to hear the complaint.
The anti-corruption prosecutor’s office has opposed National Court judge Santiago Pedraz’s admission that he had handled the complaint filed by the PP against the PSOE and several defendants in the so-called Koldo case for alleged irregular financing.
As reported by fiscal sources, the Public Prosecutor’s Office has already sent its report to the Central Court of Instruction number 5, in which it considers that there are no budgets available to investigate the complaint filed last Monday by the group led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
Now Judge Pedraz, who is investigating in a secret case an alleged hydrocarbon fraud plot affecting one of the main defendants in the Koldo case, businessman Víctor de Aldama, must decide on the matter.
Last Monday, the Popular Party filed a complaint with Investigative Court Number 5 of the National Court against the PSOE for alleged illegal financing, bribery and influence peddling, regarding the ‘Koldo case’.
Specifically, the PP requests a separate investigation into the financing of the PSOE at the National Court – apart from the investigation already opened into the so-called ‘Koldo case’ – following the journalistic information provided by the digital newspaper revealed. The goal about a businessman who “claims to have repeatedly delivered bags of cash to Ferraz’s headquarters in exchange for political favors.”
The PP understands that this information is “of such magnitude and so serious” that it is “reasonable” that this case “of alleged irregular financing of the Socialist Party is also investigated by the National Court.”
Source: EITB
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