The lawyer Leticia de la Hoz has resigned from continuing to exercise the defense of Koldo García, a former adviser to the former minister José Luis Ábalos and investigated in the Koldo case. The attorney has communicated her decision to the Audiencia Nacional in a brief in which she alleges "professional reasons", without offering any further explanations about the motives for her departure.
In the document, advanced by El País, De la Hoz specifies that the circumstances that led her to resign are covered "by professional secrecy" and assures that she informed her client in advance so that he could organize his legal representation.
"The resignation has been communicated to my client beforehand, with sufficient notice so that he can provide for his defense", the lawyer states in the brief sent to the court.
The resignation comes after the payments by Okdiario became known
The decision comes after the attorney herself revealed that the publishing company of Okdiario had paid 242,000 euros to cover fees and other expenses related to the defense of Koldo García.
The information about these payments was known on October 29 and added a new element of controversy to the judicial proceedings affecting the former adviser of Ábalos.
For his part, Koldo García has assured that the Partido Popular offered him to assume the costs of his defense and give him one million euros in exchange for providing information that could politically harm the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez.
This is an accusation made by the person under investigation himself, whose veracity has not been demonstrated with the information available.
For the moment, De la Hoz has not expressly linked her resignation to the payments that became known or to the statements of her client until now. The lawyer has limited herself to invoking professional reasons protected by the duty of confidentiality.