According to prosecutors, Jessica Rodríguez was paid under a Tragsatec contract despite doing no work. On 6 November 2026, the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office asked National Court investigating judge Ismael Moreno to continue proceedings against former Adif president Isabel Pardo de Vera, Rodríguez, former ministerial aide Koldo García and businessman Víctor de Aldama, among others. The filing seeks to move 14 investigated people into the abbreviated-procedure phase, which comes before a possible oral trial. It is not an order opening a trial or a ruling on guilt. Moreno must decide whether the case proceeds toward trial, whether any allegations or suspects should be dismissed, or whether further investigative measures are needed.
The Fiscalía Anticorrupción says Pardo de Vera used her influence to secure Rodríguez a job at Ineco, where she was then the partner of Transport Minister José Luis Ábalos. Prosecutors allege Pardo de Vera gave the hiring process a decisive push and provisionally classify her alleged conduct as influence peddling. After that contract ended, the prosecution says García and Ábalos agreed with Pardo de Vera and Adif administrative director Ignacio Zaldívar to place Rodríguez at Tragsatec. Zaldívar is also among those whose prosecution is sought. Ineco and Tragsatec are public-sector companies linked to Spain’s transport and infrastructure administration.
According to the prosecution, Rodríguez was assigned to the infrastructure company’s presidency without an interview. Zaldívar allegedly instructed colleagues not to disturb her, and that instruction remained in force throughout the contract. The Fiscalía says Rodríguez performed no work and knew she was receiving a salary without carrying out duties. Prosecutors also say she complained to Ábalos or García when her Tragsatec manager, Virginia Barbancho, asked her to clarify her working arrangements. Rodríguez is provisionally accused of alleged embezzlement. These claims remain allegations for the court to assess.
The request is part of a wider investigation into alleged irregularities involving public-sector hiring and pandemic mask contracts, as well as tax matters and other transactions linked to the Transport Ministry. Anticorruption accuses García of using his position as Ábalos’s adviser to help secure mask contracts for Soluciones de Gestión and PCR-testing contracts for Eurofins Megalab in the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands. Prosecutors allege Aldama paid García €10,000 a month to maintain access to the ministry. The case has also included arrests and searches, as reported in an earlier Koldo investigation.
García also faces a requested money-laundering charge over transactions with his brother Joseba and then-partner Patricia Uriz. Prosecutors say cash deposits, transfers and property purchases were used to conceal the origin of the funds, including the purchase of a flat in Benidorm in the name of García’s young daughter. Aldama is accused of active bribery over fixed payments to Civil Guard commander Rubén Villalba for supplying secure phones to the group. He also faces a tax charge. Prosecutors say commissions from the mask business were routed through Deluxe Fortune and MTM 180 Capital to avoid declaring them on his 2020 income-tax return. The filing’s provisional legal theories include influence peddling, embezzlement, bribery, money laundering and offences against the public treasury.
The Fiscalía is seeking proceedings against Joseba García and Patricia Uriz, along with Aldama associates Ignacio Díaz Tapia, Javier Serrano and César Moreno. Its list also includes Juan Carlos Cueto, whom prosecutors describe as an alleged mastermind, and Íñigo Rotaeche, administrator of Soluciones de Gestión. The wider Koldo investigation concerns alleged corruption around emergency medical-supply contracts during the COVID-19 period, as well as suspected influence over public-company appointments.
Separately, prosecutors have asked Moreno to close the case against 12 people. They include former Transport Ministry undersecretary Jesús Manuel Gómez, former State Ports secretary general Álvaro Sánchez Manzanares and former Adif personnel chief Michaux Miranda. The other proposed dismissals concern Daniel Sierra; María Piedad Losada Romo; Luis Alberto Escolano Martín; José Luis Rodríguez; Israel Pilar Ortiz; Rogelio Pujalte Martínez; Patricia Ramos García; María Auxiliadora Luque Martínez; and Andoni García Izaguirre. Their reported links to the investigation include roles at Soluciones de Gestión, business ties to Aldama or Cueto, connections with García, and a property transfer involving his daughter.
Judge Moreno, head of Central Investigating Court No. 2 of the National Court, will decide the next procedural step. The prosecution’s request does not itself open an oral trial or establish that any allegation has been proven.
