Tubos Reunidos, a company based in Amurrio (Alava) and which was saved in 2021 by the National Company of Industrial Participations (SEPI) with 112.8 million euros, had “until a few months ago” the former president of this state organization, Vicente Fernández Guerrero, as advisor. The Andalusian socialist held this position since the motion of censure, in the summer of 2018, until October 2019 and is now the subject of an investigation for corruption as part of a new case opened by the National Court in which two Basques are also accused, Leire Díez, originally from Portugalete, and Antxon Alonso, resident of Elorrio.
After leaving SEPI, in 2021, 2022 and 2023, Fernández Guerrero was registered as an employee of the company Servinabar 2000, with offices in Pamplona and behind which is Alonso and, with a 45% stake, the former socialist leader Santos Cerdán. He earned 68,632.45 in gross salary in 2021 and 33,251.05 in 2023 and at least 40,800 in 2022, according to data from the Navarre Provincial Treasury. However, the payments from Tubos Reunidos to Fernández Guerrero were made directly, without the mediation of Servinabar 2000. The trial against Cerdán and Alonso before the Supreme Court examines whether this company was a front for channeling illegal commissions.
Sources from Tubos Reunidos explain that the company “received a request for information” from the central court of Instruction 6 of the National Court. This happened in the last few days and has already been taken care of. The Alava company indicated that it maintained “a consulting contract with standard amounts” with Fernández Guerrero. The commercial relationship was maintained “until a few months ago”. “In response to this circumstance, and in the sole interest of collaborating with Justice, the company immediately made available to the authorities all the information in its possession,” declares the company.
The works council, which has been denouncing for years that the injection of state money has not put an end to situations like the one announced by ERTE this summer due to the effect on the pipeline company of the new tariff policy of the United States, anticipates that it will ask for “all explanations” on the role of Fernández Guerrero in a meeting that will take place this Tuesday. The meeting was already planned but they will ask that the judicial information be included on the agenda, indicates the ESK union.
That of Tubos Reunidos is, for the moment, the largest operation in terms of volume suspected in this new room. Fernández Guerrero, like Alonso and Díez, with whom Tubos Reunidos denies any connection, were arrested by the Civil Guard this week, this Saturday they were taken into custody and released with precautionary measures. The former president of SEPI was the only one to answer the questions of the instructor, Antonio Piña, and to deny the accusations.
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