Former Sánchez Ally Jailed for 24 Years in Spanish Corruption Case
The seven-judge chamber also jailed his aide for 19 years and businessman Victor de Aldama for 4.5 years after a unanimous verdict.
- On Monday, Spain's Supreme Court sentenced former Spanish Transport Minister Jose Luis Abalos to 24 years in prison for corruption linked to rigged pandemic-era contracts for medical masks during COVID-19.
- Judges found Abalos belonged to a criminal organization that profited from public spending during the COVID-19 emergency through bribery, embezzlement, and misuse of privileged information.
- The court sentenced former aide Koldo Garcia to 19 years in prison, while Businessman Victor de Aldama received a four-and-a-half-year sentence that the court suspended in recognition of his cooperation with investigators.
- Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's government faces deepened scrutiny as the Socialist Party confronts corruption allegations; the conviction marks the first verdict reaching the inner circle of Sanchez's administration.
- Despite the scandal, Sanchez has not been named in any graft cases and maintains the accusations are part of a campaign to oust him from power, though the right-wing opposition has seized on the conviction to demand early elections.
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Endnu en person fra kredsen omkring Pedro Sanchez har været i politiets søgelys på grund af mulig corruption.
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sabado.ptThe former Minister of Transport of Spain José Luis Ábalos was today sentenced to 23 years and three months in prison for corruption in public contracts for the purchase of masks in the pandemic. In addition to Ábalos, who included executives of the current head of government, Pedro Sánchez, were tried and sentenced in this case the former adviser of the former Minister Koldo García (19 years and eight months in prison) and the businessman Victo…
José Luis Abalos has been sentenced to 24 years in prison. It is the first sentence in a series of corruption charges against the government's confidants.
Spain’s Supreme Court sentences former Socialist minister Ábalos to 24 years behind bars
Two aides to the disgraced official also received prison sentences over corruption during the Covid pandemic. The ruling increases the pressure on the government of Pedro Sánchez, which is dealing with several high-profile probes
Twenty-four years and three months of imprisonment. It is the maxi-condemnation inflicted by the Spanish Supreme Court to the former Minister of Transport, and former number three of the Socialist Party, José Luis Abalos. The former right-hand man of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez was found guilty in the first degree of association to criminals, corruption, malversation and traffic of influences in the first trial related to the so-called "case ma…
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