The Senate Committee investigating the Koldo case and contracts for health care equipment during the pandemic has quoted Javier HidalgoexCEO of Globalia linked to the rescue of Air Europa and still unreachable, for Friday November 29 by criminal edict, a notice to be published in the Official State Gazette (BOE).
Sources of the PP in the Senate have pointed out that “in view of the lack of collaboration from the Government“In order to send Hidalgo the notice of appearance scheduled for November 22 in the Senate, where the PP has a majority, the president of the investigation commission of the Upper House has decided to to process a new summons for appearance by criminal edict for November 29.
According to the ‘popular’, the department headed by the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska the former CEO of Globalia has still not been located. and, after repeated summons for appearances “frustrated by the inability” to notify him, the PP presented a document in the Senate to demand the collaboration of the Executive to find his whereabouts.
The PP has explained that the Ministry of the Interior, Finance, Foreign Affairs and Industry and Tourism were asked to collaborate in the location of Hidalgo, but “it has not been so,” he has denounced, something that they qualify as a “obstruction” to the commission “which has already been experienced before”, assures the PP, citing the appearance of Koldo García, “which the PSOE took advantage of to request the suspension of his appearance” and a former high-ranking official of the Interior, “whose appearance was finally suspended”, the sources reiterated.
The PP registered on November 6 a document in the Senate in which it again demanded the Government to collaborate in the location of Hidalgo because the ‘populares’ link him to Begoña GómezBegoña Gómez, wife of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, and to the rescue of Air Europa during the pandemic.
Valuation of the PP
In the opinion of the PP, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, is “cornered by corruption and panics that the whole truth will be known. of the plot that surrounds him in his government, his party and his personal environment”.
Therefore, as they have pointed out, the PP “is not going to cross its arms” and has warned that will continue to use “all the tools at its disposal”. to ensure that Hidalgo’s appearance at the commission of inquiry is carried out.
The ‘popular’ have indicated that it is a question of the “first time” this has happened in a democracy the procedure for convening a hearing by means of criminal edicta system of notification by means of publication in the BOE according to which the person appearing is “notified” and in the event that he/she does not appear before the commission, he/she is “deemed to have been notified”. would be committing a “crime under Article 502 of the Penal Code”.
“According to whoever, summoned before a parliamentary commission of inquiry, fails to tell the truth in his testimony, shall be punished by the imprisonment from six months to one year or a fine of twelve to twenty-four months,” said PP sources.