The Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard places the former Secretary of Organization of the PSOE Santos Cerdán in meetings with an Acciona official for the alleged rigging of the award of works. This is stated in the latest report delivered to the judge of the Supreme Court in which the civil guards highlight that more than 75% of the income of Servinabar, Antxon Alonso’s company linked to Cerdán, came from the large Spanish construction company since its constitution in 2015. The Civil Guard now believes it has gathered “indications” that place the former ‘number three’ of the socialists “as a link” between the Ministry of Transport and Acciona, either directly with its directors or through Antxon Alonso and Servinabar.
The report highlights that during the period in which José Luis Ábalos was in charge of that department – between 2018 and 2021 –, Santos Cerdán, Antxon Alonso and Justo Pelegrini, former Acciona director whom the judge has just charged, held different meetings, highlighting “the security measures used.” The UCO alludes to the turning off of mobile phones during meetings, the use of instant messaging applications such as Threema “to guarantee greater privacy and anonymity”, the holding of at least one meeting in a property rented by Servinabar or communication through handwritten notes on the screen during videoconference, states the report to which elDiario.es has had access.
The UCO affirms that the relationship between Acciona and Servinabar originated in 2015, days after the incorporation of the Navarrese company. In said agreement, the two companies agreed to exploit future business opportunities through the delegation to Acciona Construction of real estate developments to which Servinabar had access, to participate in joint ventures in different projects, as well as the subcontracting of Servinabar’s services by Acciona Construction in works awarded to the latter.
Under this agreement, Servinabar received a net 2% of the awards obtained by Acciona. In total, the agents quantify the funds obtained from the construction company in the entire period investigated, which covers a decade, at 6.7 million euros. These funds came directly from Acciona Construction or UTE and companies linked to joint projects, such as the Mina Muga project promoted by the company Geoalcali, a subsidiary of the Australian mining company Highfield Resources.
At the Antxon Alonso home, last June the Civil Guard found “a private deed of sale of shares, signed by him and Santos Cerdán. In that document, dated June 1, 2016, the former transferred to the latter 1,350 shares of the 3,000 that constitute the company. Cerdán alleges that it was a plan for his life after politics, but that in the end he did not stop actively exercising it and that never materialized.
A second finding on the link between Cerdán and Servinabar
A new finding makes the UCO think that this transfer of shares did take place. Another share purchase and sale contract appeared in the June records dated December 12, 2016. Through that contract, a third person would have acquired 120 Servinabar shares.
“Although no support has been observed for this operation, what is relevant about this point lies in the tranche of shares that would have been transferred – 1,529 to 1,649 –, therefore respecting those that would have been conferred on Santos Cerdán in the aforementioned agreement. In this way, this person would have controlled 4% of the company, Santos 45% and accumulating the remaining 51% to Antxon,” the agents write. Or put another way, a second contract with another person respected the agreement that Cerdán denies.
The UCO analyzes the alleged benefits that Cerdán would have obtained from the Navarrese company. According to the agents, Servinabar paid the deposit and 15 months’ monthly payments for the property he had rented in the Chamberí neighborhood of Madrid, up to a total of 62,840.26 euros. He would also have paid 7,849 euros in furniture for that home.
In addition, the agents claim that the former Secretary of Organization of the PSOE and his relatives used a bank card in the name of Antxon Alonso starting in December 2021 to make personal expenses worth 33,574 euros. The report states that “payments have been located that, due to their characteristics and location of the establishment that made the charge, could be attributed to Cerdán or his family environment.” Investigators highlight that the last charge recorded was the day before Koldo García’s arrest, on February 19, 2024. There are 49 charges in a restaurant located three minutes from Cerdán’s family home, as well as others corresponding to separate trips to Ibiza and Tenerife that he would have made with his wife and daughter.
Small contracts for relatives of Cerdán
There is another section in the report dedicated to the alleged perks from which Cerdán and his entourage would have benefited. These are the contracts that Servinabar offered to the wife, sister and brother-in-law of the former Secretary of Organization of the PSOE so that they could supposedly work in the company.
Thus, Francisca Muñoz Cano, Cerdán’s wife, would have received 9,500 euros between March and July 2018 as a “working member” of the Noran cooperative, registered by the UCO last Friday. The cooperative was founded by Antxon Alonso and Koldo García and was financed with funds from Servinabar.
Santos Cerdán’s sister, Belén, received a total of 22,324.51 euros from Servinabar for her work at Servinabar between February and June 2020. The UCO suspects that after that period Servinabar continued to finance the hiring of Belén Cerdán at Erkolan, the other cooperative registered on Friday, between July 2020 and last May 2025. The Erkolan cooperative received funds from Servinabar for a total value of 367,290.43 euros.
Finally, Antonio Muñoz Cano, brother-in-law of Santos Cerdán, was hired at Servinabar between September 2019 and December 2022. He earned a total of 53,130.30 euros as a “specialist laborer” in a work derived from the pandemic to which he would have agreed through the intercession of Antxon Alonso with an Acciona director, Manuel José García Alconchel, who has just been charged by Judge Puente. “Thank you, Manuel. I will not forget it,” Alonso wrote to the Acciona manager.
Source: www.eldiario.es
