The Supreme Court cited three new investigators linked to Acciona in the alleged Public Works Awards Week for stings in which former PSOE secretaries Santos Cerdán and José Luis Albalos were supposedly involved. The ruling is based on a new report by the Unidad Central Operativa (UCO) of the Civil Guard, which indicates that 75% of the interests of the company Servinabar, owned by Joseba Antixon Alonso and linked to Cerdán, come from Acciona.
Judge Leopoldo Puente made this decision after records made last week by the Civil Guard at the headquarters of the construction company Acciona in Bilbao, Madrid and the home of the company’s former construction director, Justo Vicente Pellegrini. This directive is one of three cited to announce that it is under investigation, along with Tomas Olarte Sanz and Manuel José García Alconchel, who were affiliated with Pellegrini and are still linked to the company. He himself is aware of the deletion of the separate piece which he believed after receiving a report from the UCO on Cerdan’s heritage.
In the decision issued this month, the judge explains that he has ruled that the actions are confidential “because they do not frustrate” the target, “without deceit” by them, after examining the documents entered during these entries and records and in the information that can be obtained from the intervening computers and phones, if they can order others to be diligent “without having to issue a confidentiality order to anyone.” This article, which has remained secret until now, will be integrated into what has been revealed since last June, in which Cerdán, former Socialist Minister José Luis Ábalos, who was the latter’s personal advisor, Koldo García, and five businessmen, including another former Acciona executive, Fernando Merino, are being investigated. The aim of the research is to investigate alleged irregularities in the awarding of public works in the Ministry of Development and Transport in the Abalos phase.
Regarding the three new investigators, cited for the announcement of December 3, Puente justifies the decision to assign “in light of” the report submitted by the Central Operations Unit of the Civil Guard, closed on November 11, on the origins of Cerdán, “which contains references to concrete extremes, relating in particular to the apparently unjustified dismissal of certain public works, in which these three persons could have been involved.
Previous entries and records were affected, as well as Acciona and four other companies. Among the Basque cooperatives are Ercolan and Nuran, which share their headquarters in San Sebastian and have economic ties to Servinabar 2000, a Navarra company identified as the origin of the illegal prize conspiracy and in which Cerdan supposedly owned 45% of the shares. Nuran was founded by Basque businessman Josipa Antixon Alonso Igurrola – also accused of the Oduino de Cervinabar case – and Koldo García, and between 2016 and 2024 received more than 650 thousand euros from Cervinabar. Between 2019 and 2023, Erkolan, who is linked to the sister of the former secretary of PSOE, received about 260 thousand euros from the same company.
The other registered companies are now Tecade (which requires information only) and Freyssinet, both in Seville. They formed a temporary consortium of companies (UTE) with the company Acciona, linked to work on the expansion of the Puente del V Centenario in the Andalusian capital, which was initially awarded at 86 million euros, but the final cost rose to about 103 million. In the report submitted by the UCO last June that exposed Cerdán’s ties and led to a political earthquake in the PSOE, the Guardia Civil highlighted that the secretary of the organization then awarded Koldo García so that this contract could be awarded. La Guardia Civil links this work to part of an alleged sum of 450 thousand euros that was supposedly not received by the former minister and his then chancellor.
Moreover, in a recording intercepted by the UCO of Koldo García in November 2023, the former ministerial advisor to Abalos said: “Santos went to the Ministry of Transport to appoint two people from Justo, from Acciona.” According to agents, it could refer to Pellegrini. The multinational company fired her in June, four days after the UCO report was published, attributing it to a “lack of diligence in carrying out her management responsibilities”.
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