Supreme Court Justice Leopoldo Puente agreed to revoke the passport, ban him from leaving the country and force José García Alconchel to appear in court every 15 days. head of the southern area of Accionawho declared this Monday as under investigation … in the context of the Cerdán affair.
The judge summoned him with his director Justo Pelegrini, former construction director of Acciona, and another director, Tomás Olarte Sanz, on December 3, but he was unable to appear due to the illness of his lawyer. He wanted to question them about the public works contracts that the multinational signed with Servinabar, the company that the former organizing secretary of the PSOE shared with the Basque businessman Antxon Alonso, also investigated in the case of alleged delivery of illegal orders to Cerdán and the former Minister of Transport, José Luis Ábalos.
According to judicial sources, in his statement, the former director of Acciona, suspended from his functions since he was called to testify in an investigation, although he remains in the company, as reported by the multinational, maintained that his accusation responded solely to his position. He denied irregularities in the contracts and said he did not know Santos Cerdán.
The report from the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard submitted to the judge of the High Court on November 11, which leaves Cerdán in a very complicated situation, places Alconchel as a signatory of the memorandums of understanding between Servinabar and Acciona for the public contracts from the Ministry of Transport that they received.
The manager was summoned today because on the day his colleagues addressed the Supreme Court, his defense was recovering. Pelegrini and Olarte are also subject to precautionary measures, like those that the judge granted today for Alconchel after requesting them from the anti-corruption prosecutor’s office and popular accusations, and they continue to be investigated in the corruption case that led Cerdán to preventive detention.
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