The former president of Adif, Isabel Pardo de Vera, has rejected that there are irregularities in the works under investigation in the 'Koldo case', arguing that it was impossible to manipulate the awards, since between 25 and 50 technicians participated in each of these files and more than 100 reports issued by bodies of the railway administrator itself and by independent external entities were reviewed.
Pardo de Vera, who is listed as investigated in the National Court within the framework of the 'Koldo case', has sent five expert reports to the investigating judge, Ismael Moreno, in which she details the technical matrices of the Adif contracts that are under suspicion.
These documents are part of the case being led by Moreno regarding alleged rigging of public contracts, a procedure in which, among others, the former Secretary of Organization of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán, and several businessmen are also implicated.
"The analysis of the file documentation allows us to conclude that the actions examined were documented and subject to internal, collegiate, technical, legal, and inspection controls, which allows us to flatly rule out any type of irregularity," Pardo de Vera maintains in the reports.
The former head of Adif, who has personally prepared these documents as an expert engineer, emphasizes that it was she who promoted a system of transparency and traceability in the contracting of the railway manager and that she signs these expert reports as a specialist in railway works contracting, according to sources close to her environment have indicated to Europa Press.
According to those sources, between 25 and 50 civil servants from different departments participated in each award and more than one hundred independent reports from internal Adif bodies and external institutions were studied, covering areas ranging from engineering to legal, administrative, and economic areas.
A control system that she sees as incompatible with corruption
For this reason, Pardo de Vera considers that the volume of supervision, transparency, and traceability mechanisms existing in these contracts is incompatible with any accusation of corruption.
In her conclusions, the former president of Adif maintains that all procedures and decisions adopted were duly motivated, documented, and subjected to multiple internal and external controls, which, in her opinion, allows the existence of irregularities to be ruled out.
From her perspective, the participation of a large number of technical personnel and various collegiate bodies would accredit that the processing of the questioned tenders was carried out in accordance with current regulations.
She further emphasizes that her role in these files was strictly organic and stresses that dozens of officials and bodies intervened with the aim of guaranteeing the integrity of the contracting procedures.
In particular, Pardo de Vera presents the judge with a detailed chronology of the process followed for the awarding of the High-Speed contracts awarded to Acciona, Ferrovial, OPR, and ASCH in the sections of Sant Feliu de Llobregat (Barcelona), Almería, Murcia, Asturias, and Lugo.
In that sequence, she specifies which bodies participated in each phase, which reports were issued, which contracting committee acted, which legal and economic controls were applied, which documents were signed, and which competencies corresponded to each decision-making level, in addition to identifying the specific causal links that can be attributed to certain individuals.