The former Minister of Transportation José Luis Ábalos announced this Tuesday that he has requested the Supreme Court to appoint a court-appointed lawyer to assist him in his statement as a defendant in the 'Koldo case', which is scheduled for Wednesday, given that he resigned from the lawyer who represented him until now due to “irreducible differences.”
“Given my willingness to comply with my appearance before Chamber II of the Supreme Court in order to give a statement tomorrow, October 15, 2025, and also given that yesterday I have renounced the assistance of the person who until now represented my defense, as long as I do not appoint a new lawyer, I have seen fit to request from the Supreme Court an ex officio lawyer so that he can assist me tomorrow,” he announced on the social network Press.
He former minister He spoke out after on Monday he notified the Supreme Court of his decision to resign from his lawyer, José Aníbal Álvarez, two days before declaring as an investigator in the case regarding the collection of alleged commissions in exchange for public awards. As he specified, he has broken off relations with the lawyer considering that they maintain “irreducible differences.”
In the document, which Europa Press had, he specified that the differences with his lawyer, “far from constituting a specific circumstance in time, have become a constant.” For this reason, the deputy understood that the maintenance of legal assistance was “unfeasible, since there has been an irreversible deterioration of what should be a relationship based on trust.”
Ábalos stressed that the consequence of these differences is that, “after different episodes of disagreement, accompanied by the atmosphere generated in the context of the media”, the relationship with his lawyer has been “interrupted” to the point that he, as an investigator, has had to “prepare” his statement – scheduled for this Wednesday – by himself.