The Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard is investigating whether former socialist activist Leire Díez, former SEPI president Vicente Fernández and businessman Antxon Alonso Bribes were distributed in exchange for mediating up to five contracts with companies linked to SEPI itself.
Some of these operations are company rescue Tubes collected or the allegedly irregular award of a public contract for Walkas reported by Cadena Ser and confirmed by sources close to the investigation. These alleged irregularities are part of the operation led by the Central Investigating Court 6 of the National Court in coordination with the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, whose procedures are subject to summary secrecy.
Last Wednesday the UCO arrested Díez, Fernández and Alonso, who were abandoned this Saturday on preventive release with precautionary measures. This week, the Civil Guard unit also went to request information from SEPI and the Post Office, among other agencies, and searched the Enusa headquarters.
According to information collected by Cadena Ser, the UCO is investigating whether the three alleged suspects entered 750,000 euros in the form of commissions through five operations carried out between 2021 and 2023.
It is necessary to highlight the rescue of 112.8 million from the company Tubos Reunidos, whose plot would have received 114,950 eurosor the contract of the Principado de Asturias Business Park for the UTE Construcciones y Excavaciones Erriberri Afesa Medio Ambiente for 2.8 million, for which the people investigated would have received 400,000 euros in commission.
The granting of aid from the State Company for the Promotion and Development of Enterprises (SEPIDES) to the Arapellet company, which depends on Forestalia, for an amount of 17.32 million euros, also remains under surveillance.with a commission of 200,000 eurosand two other minor operations.
Among them, the allegedly irregular award of a contract worth 18,119.75 euros from the public company Mercasa to Servinabar, managed by Antxon Alonso and was also participated, according to researchers, by the former secretary general of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán, through a contract to which the former socialist leader denies the legal value.
The three detained for this reason appeared this Saturday before Judge Antonio Piña, who He agreed that they would be provisionally released with a ban on leaving the country.the withdrawal of the passport and the obligation to appear in court every 15 days, thus responding to the request of the anti-corruption prosecutor’s office.
Leire Díez and Antxon Alonso They used their right not to declare before the magistrate because the matter was secret, while Vicente Fernández denied having participated in any irregularity in public procurement, according to judicial sources.
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