The invoices at the centre of the dispute list the payments as fees for legal advice and proceedings for Koldo García. They record two transfers totalling €242,000 from Dos Mil Palabras, the company that publishes Okdiario, to the office of García’s lawyer, Leticia de la Hoz. The transfers were listed as €181,500 and €60,500.
Okdiario and its director, Eduardo Inda, have demanded that elDiario.es correct its report, describing it as false and threatening legal action over alleged damage to their reputations. According to elDiario.es, the outlet says the payments were for the transfer of García’s image and intellectual property rights, not his legal defence. It has also asked De la Hoz to change the descriptions on the invoices, almost a year after they were issued.
The first invoice is dated 27 November 2025, the day García gave several interviews to Okdiario. ARA reported that the payments coincided with a series of interviews in which García made allegations concerning corruption within the Spanish government. The report says those allegations were unsubstantiated. Okdiario has said the contract for image rights was signed the day before the first payment; the invoices it paid, however, described legal services.
On 29 October 2026, De la Hoz submitted the invoices and transfer records to National Court investigating judge Santiago Pedraz in connection with the Koldo investigation. She had asked the court for permission to explain who paid García’s defence amid suspicion that the PSOE had done so. The documents identify Dos Mil Palabras, rather than the PSOE, as the payer. Whether the money covered legal work or image and intellectual-property rights remains central to the dispute.
García was sentenced by the Supreme Court to 19 years and eight months in prison for corruption-related offences linked to his relationship with José Luis Ábalos, who was transport minister at the time. The case concerned the procurement of protective masks during the COVID-19 period and also involved businessman Víctor de Aldama. During the trial, García claimed in his final statement that two media outlets had met him and urged him to lie about the government. He said he could prove it, as reported by elDiario.es.
The payment disclosures also emerged amid a separate political dispute over García’s allegation that the Popular Party had offered him €1 million in exchange for information damaging to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and the PSOE. PP spokesperson Ester Muñoz denied that the party had made such an offer, while PSOE Organization Secretary Rebeca Torró said the party’s legal services were studying possible legal action. The alleged offer is separate from the €242,000 transfers documented in the invoices.
