A scandal has erupted regarding public contracts worth 53 million euros awarded to the company Soluciones de Gestión during the pandemic. These contracts, attributed to representatives of the company before the Government, are at the center of an investigation involving politician Ábalos for alleged crimes of criminal organization, bribery, influence peddling, and embezzlement.
The intermediary Víctor de Aldama, who is being investigated for corruption along with former minister Ábalos and his advisor, has indicated that there were bribery payments in exchange for public contracts for other companies he represented in the field of public works. Aldama included the awards in his list of companies that allegedly paid commissions to Ábalos and his advisor to secure contracts.
The former president of Adif, Isabel Pardo de Vera, mentioned that both Aldama and the owner of Levantina, José Ruz, were present at the Ministry of Transport and showed interest in the payment of awards from the public railway company to different companies, raising suspicions about possible irregularities in the processes.
Levantina, Ingeniería y Construcción, SL, one of the companies involved, was awarded a project for the improvement of the High-Speed Line Madrid-Zaragoza-Barcelona-French Border for 3.8 million euros. However, unusual situations were detected in their bids, such as proposals considered reckless or abnormal, which led to the exclusion of Levantina from some awards.
In recent investigations, it was discovered that advisor Koldo García, linked to Ábalos, had prior information on Adif awards that could have been subject to irregularities. This scandal has raised questions about the transparency of the bidding processes in the Ministry of Transport during Ábalos' management, generating uncertainty about the legitimacy of certain awards.
