The Civil Guard has arrested the businessman Antxon Alonso, owner of Servinabar 2000 and a key figure in the investigation against Santos Cerdán, within the framework of the operation in which the former socialist militant Leire Díez and the former president of the Spanish Society of Industrial Participations (SEPI) Vicente Fernández have also been arrested, as sources from the Armed Institute have confirmed to elDiario.es. The operation is still open and these three arrests were made on Wednesday.
Between Wednesday and Thursday there have been 19 searches in Madrid, Seville, Zaragoza (at the Forestalia headquarters) and Navarra, which are still being carried out at this time. Sources from the investigation explain that the operation has been rushed after those responsible detected the movements of one of those investigated, the former president of the SEPI, and went to the duty court of the National Court with the request to launch the arrests as soon as possible.
The operation is the result of investigative proceedings by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, which has gone to the National Court’s duty court, number 6, to request several searches and arrests. Díez and Fernández are accused of crimes of fraud, document falsification, embezzlement, influence peddling and prevarication. The detainees will be brought to justice next Saturday, at 10:00 am.
Fernández was president of the SEPI between June 2018 and October 2019. He was dismissed after the Provincial Court of Seville reopened the case on the alleged rigging of the international tender for the award of the Aznalcóllar mine (Seville) and he was charged again. Just last week he was acquitted of that case along with 15 other people, including various officials and technicians from the Junta de Andalucía.
The investigations surrounding the Navarrese company Servinabar, at the center of the Koldo plot as a possible crossroads between Santos Cerdán and the public works awards to Acciona, also revealed Fernández’s relationship with this company. He spent several years on the salary of Servinabar and, according to data from the Foral Treasury, he earned more than 100,000 euros in gross salary in at least two years.
Leire Díez, for her part, worked between October 2018 and December 2021 at Enusa, a public company in the nuclear sector dependent on SEPI. Socialist leaders affirm that during this stage Leire Díez attended some meetings of the public company with Vicente Fernández.
After his departure from the SEPI, Vicente Fernández was registered between 2021 and 2023 in Servinabar, the Navarrese company suspected of being the link for the collection and distribution of bribes to the former secretary general of the PSOE Santos Cerdán, according to the Provincial Treasury of Navarra. He never mentioned this job on his resume. He appeared in the Senate, within the framework of the investigative commission opened by this case, and refused to answer questions because he was involved in another procedure linked to Aznalcóllar, reports Iker Rioja.
The case of the Aznalcóllar mine
Fernández Guerrero was accused by Judge Mercedes Alaya in the Aznalcóllar case for his role as Secretary General of Industry of the Junta de Andalucía, although at the time of directing the investigation against him he held the position of president of the SEPI. Fernández resigned three days later, as announced by the then acting Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, today a socialist candidate for the Board.
The acquittal sentence of the Seville Court includes harsh criticism of Alaya’s instruction. This judge, known as the first instructor of the ERE case, was one of Leire Díez’s objectives in her search for police officers, judges and other officials who had acted against the Government for ideological motivations. She defends that her maneuvers only respond to the journalistic work of someone who is writing a book.
Source: www.eldiario.es
