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Spain's Transport Ministry leadership has confirmed that the CV of Claudia Montes, a former Miss Asturias, "came from Renfe" ahead of her hiring at Logirail, a subsidiary of the state-owned company. Two former managing directors of Logirail have testified that there was no official, controlled channel for receiving job applications.

The hiring of **Claudia Montes**, a former Miss Asturias, by the commercial team of **Logirail**, a Renfe subsidiary, has left an uncomfortable paper trail. The Transport Ministry leadership has confirmed that the CV "came from Renfe". It was not a spontaneous application, nor the result of an open process.

## Two former executives confirm there was no official channel

Two former managing directors of the state-owned company itself have testified that there was no official, controlled channel for receiving job applications. In other words, the formal mechanism for receiving and evaluating CVs was not in place. That alone does not prove the appointment was irregular, but it does point to an opaque procedure.

The testimony came during the trial of the **masks case**, which has put former minister **José Luis Ábalos** and his former adviser **Koldo García Izaguirre** in the dock. The second session focused on the "arbitrary" hiring of two people linked to the former Socialist minister.

## The trial examines the hiring of two loyalists

Alongside Montes, the trial has examined the hiring of **Jéssica Rodríguez**, the former minister's ex-partner, at the state-owned companies **Ineco** and **Tragsatec**. Rodríguez testified as a witness. The session focused on how those hires came about and who authorised them.

Montes joined the commercial team of Logirail, a Renfe subsidiary specialising in logistics services. The fact that her CV came from the parent company, according to the Transport Ministry, suggests an entry route that bypassed the ordinary selection process.

## What is known and what is not

Two facts are confirmed: the CV came from Renfe, and there was no official channel for receiving applications, according to two former executives. What has not been established is whether those procedural shortcomings resulted in a hiring that broke the law. That is what the trial must determine.

The court case remains open and none of the people mentioned has been convicted. Any assessment of the legality of the hires must await the court's ruling.