Antxón Alonso And Santos Cerdan influenced the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (Miteco) of Therese Ribera in favor of the companies Forestalia, Sumelzo and other renewable companies which paid them.
Until July, the organizing secretary of the PSOE and his partner in Servinabar They took steps to obtain conditional approval from Miteco for the construction of a major 270 kilometer electric highway between Aragon and the Basque Country that Forestalia wanted to launch.
Cerdán’s land contacts at Miteco were members of Vice President Ribera’s team. Among them would be his chief of staff, Borja Sastre, as sources close to the negotiations revealed to EL ESPAÑOL.
Sastre was promoted by Ribera in November 2023, the same month as Antxón Alonso organized a meeting with the government of María Chivite at the request of Forestalia.
The manufacturer therefore also played the role of intermediary between Forestalia, Sumelzo and the government of Navarre.
On November 6, 2023, Cerdán’s associate met at the Palacio de Navarra with Vice President Félix Tabernathe president of Forestalia, Fernando Samper, and the directors of this renewable company Carlos Ontañón, Luis Marruedo And Julio Tejedor.
This meeting was also attended by the Minister of Rural Development and Environment of the Government of Navarra, José María Aierdi.
Servinabar invoiced at least 160,000 euros foror the efforts of Cerdán and Antxon Alonso in favor of renewable companies.
Of this amount, 12,100 euros were paid by Sumelzo SA. This company is run by the brother and cousin of the Secretary of State for Latin America and the Caribbean. Susana Sumelzo.
EL ESPAÑOL contacted Sumelzo, theHe completely dissociated himself from the business carried out by his brother (Juan Jose) and her cousin (Fernando).
“I have never had any financial involvement or involvement in my family’s business activities,” the secretary of state said.
Susana Sumelzo indicated that her “political and professional career is completely independent and has no connection with the commercial activity of any of the people mentioned in the information.”
“I have no business relationship with my family. I have never run a business. No administrative action on my part is linked to these companies and no judicial, police or administrative action concerns me,” he said.
The remaining 148,000 euros were paid by an Aragonese company called Martínez mediations. This company is linked to both Sumelzo and Forestalia through the head offices of their subsidiaries or other holding companies.
This company, today called Ku-ma Real Estate Promotions made a transfer to Servinabar of 107,000 euros in 2022 and another of 40,000 euros in 2023.
The head office is currently located at 76 Serrano Street in Madrid, where many companies in the renewable energy sector are domiciled.
Your administrator is Carmelo Aznárez, which also owns Mascún Obra Civil.
This construction company is associated with Sumelzo SA and its address in Huesca is now also the headquarters of Infraestructuras Montearagón, the company of Sumelzo’s brother and cousin which had its headquarters at the same address as Servinabar.
The relationship between Forestalia and the Sumelzo family dates back to 2017.
Commercial links
At this time they started a intense business transfer activity linked to the renewable energy sector. These were often “ghost” companies that sat dormant while waiting to be used to compete for licenses.
So, for example, this newspaper confirmed how on July 6, 2017 the Sumelzo family created the company Renewable energy hype. Almost two years later, on March 26, 2019, the same company appointed sole administrator Fernando Sol, SL and as representative Fernando Samper Rivas, president of Forestalia.
Fernando Sol, SL is the holding company of the Samper family. During the 2024 financial year, it achieved a turnover of just over three million euros, with losses close to 11.55 million.
A pattern similar to that of Renovables Trillar was followed in the company Renewable energies by PolluxSL. In this case, it is the company of the president of Forestalia which transfers control to the Sumelzo family. The same thing happened with Renewable mineralsSL.
It is worth remembering that, as reported by this newspaper, the Secretary of State, Susana Sumelzo, claims to have “never had any financial relationship or any intervention in the commercial activities” of her family.
After what happened with Polux Renewable EnergiesSL. The path society is following is the opposite. Juan José Sumelzo And Fernando Sumelzo They cease to be administrators and Fernando Sol, SL takes over control with Fernando Samper Rivas as representative.
The pattern is replicated in other companies such as Lisitea renewable energy, SL; Renewable Energy SaunoSL; Aesculape renewable energySL and in Dione Renewable Energies.
They are all companies linked (or owners) to different wind farms, mainly in Aragon.
Some were even subsequently resold to other players in the sector who were not related to them. Either to promote the permits obtained by Forestalia, or to manage the parks built.
The electric highway
The ultimate goal of the Sumelzo and Forestalia family was launch a very high voltage line (MAT) between Zaragoza and Gatika (Vizcaya). This meant that the MAT passed through Navarre, from Carcastillo to Alsasua.
It is a project which generated a lot social and political rejection due to its enormous environmental impact. There are even those who doubt that this can be achieved since normally this type of development is the responsibility of Red Eléctrica de España (REE) to develop them.
The objective of this line was to evacuate part of the energy produced in Aragon’s renewable parks to other communities where the demand for electricity was greater. In total, almost 270 kilometers.
While it is true that Miteco has given approval to several sections of its Environmental impact study (DIA), has not obtained approval for its construction from any of the autonomy areas affected by its construction.
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