During the fifteen months that Vicente Fernández Guerrero remained president of State company of industrial participations (SEPI), The value of their real estate increased by 424,334 euros, or 176 percent. This is clear from the declarations of assets, rights … and property obligations that this former senior official of the first government of Pedro Sánchez presented when he was appointed by the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Monteroand after his dismissal.
Vicente Fernández, in office from June 22, 2018 to October 4, is under investigation for sharing with PSOE “plumber” Leire Díez and businessman Antxon Alonso a total of 750,614 euros in allegedly illegal commissions through aid and public procurement, a conspiracy that has its epicenter in the state holding company that controls strategic companies such as RTVE, Navantia, Correos, Navantia, Mercasa, Tragsa, Enusa or Alestis.
When the current first vice president of the government and general secretary of the Andalusian PSOE ceded control of the state conglomerate, Vicente Fernández declared that His real estate was valued at 240,439.41 euroshad liabilities or debt of 425,000 euros, shares amounting to 23,000 euros, 8,000 euros in current account and 45,000 euros in other “assets or rights with economic content”, as indicated in the resolution of the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Civil Service of September 26, 2018. His salary was around 220,000 euros gross per year.
His real estate assets increased by 176% in a year and a half, according to the asset declaration he presented
After his departure, his real estate assets amounted to 674,773 euros and liabilities of 587,000 eurosbased on his own statement. That is to say that they had increased by 424,334 euros in less than a year and a half, well above what the amount of their property loan had increased. He further informed the government that He had 7,280 euros in his checking accounts and 70,800 euros in other rights of economic content, as reflected in the resolution issued by the same ministry on March 16, 2020.
Montero’s former subordinate He leaves the presidency of SEPI on October 4, 2019constrained by his accusation in the alleged rigging of the award of the Aznalcóllar mine while he was a senior official in the last Andalusian PSOE government, a case for which he was tried and in which he was ultimately acquitted.
The assets of senior officials of the General State Administration are published in the Official State Gazette (BOE), which disseminates the value of assets. omit data regarding its location and protect the privacy of its owners. They have a period of three months from taking possession or departure to inform the Activities Register and the Heritage Register of their situation.
His assets increased from 2018
Fernández’s assets have grown exponentially since 2018. In July 2017, as Auditor General of the Council (2016-2018), he acquired a 332 square meter chalet with a 30 meter swimming pool and garden in the exclusive La Juliana urbanization, in the Sevillian municipality of Bollullos de la Mitación, where footballers Sergio Ramos and Pilar Rubio also live.. Its market value exceeds the declared 240,439 square meters.
Currently, Fernández accumulates, with his wife, two chalets and four apartments in Madrid, Seville and Marbellaall valued at more than 4 million euros, apart from financial investment products which exceed one million.
The properties he accumulated after his time at SEPI are one of the aspects he has focused on. the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard in the case promoted by the judge of the National Court Antonio Piña to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office.
A 228 square meter apartment with three terraces in Madrid
On November 18, 2018, five months after taking control of SEPI, he acquired a 228 square meter apartment with three terraces valued at 1.4 million euros in Puerta de Hierro, in the Fuencarral-El Pardo district, one of the most exclusive in the city located 20 minutes from the Center of Madrid. He has a mortgage of 585,000 euros, which coincides with the debt declared when he left the Government.
The former director of SEPI, Leire Díez, who was director of institutional relations, philately, studies and the future of Correos between 2022 and 2024, Leire Diezand the businessman Antxón Alonsopartner of Santos Cerdán in Servinabar 2000 SL, are under investigation for the alleged commission of crimes of prevarication, embezzlement, influence peddling and criminal organization.
Advisor Servinabar
The investigations focus on a period after Fernández’s departure from SEPI, between 2021 and 2023, coinciding with his integration into Servinabar as an external advisor, which earned him remuneration. 128,092 euros for its servicesa signature authorized by the Government Conflict of Interest Office.
The police investigation, subject to summary secrecy, indicates that the organization of the plot began in mid-2018, just after Sánchez’s arrival in La Moncloa. The judge suspects that Fernández used his “ability to influence certain people linked to the public service» so that aid and public contracts were granted to companies which rewarded him with bribes.
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