Claudia Montes has declared before the Supreme that Ábalos never told her that she had "plugged in" Logsette
According to the witness, the former minister only sent him links to job offers, and Koldo Garcia told him from the beginning that he was his "boss" at the public company.
Claudia Montes has stated on Wednesday in the Supreme Court that former Transport Minister José Luis Ábalos "never" told him that he had intervened to facilitate hiring at the public company Logirail. "Ábalos never told me: Claudia, I plugged you in," she said during her appearance on the second day of the trial investigating alleged irregularities in the purchase of masks during the pandemic.
Montes, who worked at Renfe's subsidiary between December 2019 and February 2022, has explained that at a PSOE event in Asturias he met Ábalos and that they had a friendship and militancy relationship. According to him, he told him about his personal situation, that he was a single mother and that he had no job, and then the former minister sent him some links with the jobs in Logsem. Montes has said that he finally presented his candidacy through InfoJobs.
According to the witness, his hiring was carried out on a regular basis and he has denied that he falsified his curriculum, as a UCO report says. "There is no shortage of studies," he stressed.
He has also stated during his statement that Koldo Garcia, a former adviser to Ábalos, told him "from the beginning" that he was his "boss" and that he presented himself as Renfe's advisor.
About his work at the company, Montes said he went to work normally, although sometimes he went to the library in Oviedo to read books about trains during his working hours, because he didn't have a suitable place to work in the office. "I wanted to know everything about trains," he explained.
For their part, the former leaders of Logirail have offered contradictory versions of the company stage: one of the leaders of has said that they initiated a case for unjustified absences, and another has said that their problems were due to the lack of adequate jobs.
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