“When everything is known about the racecourse…”. This sentence is uttered as a warning by a person with a certain power and influence within the Socialist Party. This is the La Zarzuela racetrack, a public company owned by SEPI which, since the arrival … of Pedro Sánchez in power, the president of the government and his acolytes have shamelessly used to place like-minded people. These same collaborators of Sánchez, starting with his former Secretary of Organization, Santos Cerdán, also used their discreet installations to transform the sports space into the center of operations of the corrupt conspiracy that operated around the PSOE.
Cerdán, who, along with his wife, Paqui Muñoz, and the former president of SEPI arrested this Wednesday by the UCO, Vicente Fernández, were VIP area regulars during horse racing, both under the presidency of Paco Salazar and now under the leadership of the leader of the Basque PSOE and friend of Cerdán, Ernesto Gasco. Leire Díez was also seen.
The former socialist number three, who spent five months in prison in Soto del Real, was also seen “two or three times a week” – sometimes with the “plumber” Díez – at the restaurant La Cantina del Hipódromo. He used to go there, according to personal sources consulted by ABC, “accompanied by another manager and always with businessmen from the construction sector“. This is where they allegedly “closed their businesses”.
The racetrack, located on the outskirts of Madrid, on one side of the A-6 towards A Coruña and next to the facilities of the National Intelligence Center (CNI), used Pedro Sánchez to move his collaborators closer together when, for one reason or another, he could no longer keep them in the position they occupied.
He sent Salazar there, in the summer of 2021, after removing him from his position as number two in the presidential cabinet. The management of the Sevillian leader, without any experience with horses, represented a millionaire hole in the accounts which her replacement, the former communications director of the PSOE, Maritxa Ruíz-Mateos, tried to remedy with better management when she left the position she held in Ferraz in the summer of 2022.
After the 2023 elections, the president was forced to relieve Ruíz-Mateos, on Cerdán’s orders, thus giving a professional outlet to the leader of the Basque PSOE. Ernesto Gascowho was for several months High Commissioner against child poverty in Moncloa.
Also Cerdán and Salazar himself used the Hippodrome to place trusted people, as is the case of the former commercial director, Judith Martínez, very close to the first. The former president of the institution placed professionals alongside him, such as the former director of communications.
Birthday of Pedro Sánchez
The demonstration that the PSOE used the Hippodrome as a farm, already accumulating 47 million euros in losses under the socialist administration, that in February 2022 the president of the time, Paco Salazar, today accused of sexual harassment, offered the facilities to the head of executive, Pedro Sánchez, so that celebrate their 50th anniversary there.
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