The Central Operative Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard suspects that the former PSOE organization secretary Santos Cerdán handled cash money outside of his bank accounts. However, it has not been able, or at least for now, to find those five million euros in kickbacks that Supreme Court magistrate Leopoldo Puente mentioned when he sent him to unconditional prison a year ago.
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The investigators have been after the money for months but so far it has not appeared. What they have found is that for several years, coinciding with the arrival and departure of José Luis Ábalos at the Ministry of Transport, Cerdán stopped having money available on his credit cards.
Among the data established are just over 18,261 euros that he deposited into his accounts between 2014 and 2017 without knowing their origin, just before landing in Madrid with Pedro Sánchez when he was elected general secretary of the PSOE.
In addition, it states that the company Servinabar, of the also investigated Antxón Alonso, would have provided a credit card for Cerdán and his wife, from which they would have spent around 3,560 euros through 40 payments.
The investigators’ thesis is that Cerdán favored public contracts to Servinabar and Acciona, mainly from Transport, with the help of Ábalos and Koldo García and in return would have received the corresponding kickbacks.
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According to the UCO, Servinabar served as a kind of cover to make payments. Through the company, several relatives of the ex-socialist were hired, estimating a benefit among all of them of 300,000 euros.
“The annual evolution of the benefits of Cerdán and his family is of interest, reaching their peaks between 2019 and 2023, a period that encompasses the so-called ‘ministerial stage’ of Ábalos in which Acciona was awarded the investigated tenders, and part of the ‘post-ministerial stage’ in which Cerdán was appointed PSOE organization secretary, thus replacing Ábalos,” the report delivered to National Court judge Ismael Moreno, who is investigating the ‘Koldo case’, states.
On the other hand, they point out among the suspicions that Cerdán would have received from the PSOE the reimbursement of his expenses as organization secretary and deputy, money whose origin was not entirely from his bank accounts.
”From these facts, two possibilities are deduced: On the one hand, that the expenses claimed from the PSOE and the Congress of Deputies had been covered with an undeclared source of money, and on the other, that Santos had claimed expenses from the PSOE and the Congress that had not been initially paid by himself or that had not actually been incurred,” the report states.
