– Alejandro Martinez Velez – Europe Press – Archive
Madrid, November 30 (European Press) –
The Senate’s investigative committee into all the repercussions of the “Koldo Affair” will next Thursday question Santos Cerdán’s former right-hand man in the PSOE’s organizational secretariat and the party’s current secretary of municipal policy, Juanfran Serrano.
Serrano, who will attend as deputy organizing secretary of the PSOE and deputy and former mayor of the municipality of Bedmar y Garcíez Jaén, will answer questions from senators starting at 10:00 a.m. on December 4, as shown in the agenda, consulted by Europa Press.
After being summoned, he will appear at the suggestion of the Popular Party, which has an absolute majority in the Senate, and he will do so before Santos Cerdán himself, who was also summoned to the committee but without a specific date, as reported at the time by the “Popular” spokeswoman in the Senate, Alicia García.
The interrogation comes after the release of Santos Cerdán from prison after nearly five months in prison and coincides with the entry into prison of former Transport Minister Jose Luis Abalos and his former advisor Koldo Garcia, all of whom are linked to the alleged scheme to collect bribes in exchange for the award of public works contracts.
Cerdan was imprisoned on July 1 after the Central Operations Unit (UCO) indicated in a report submitted to the Supreme Court (TS) that the then PSOE organizing secretary was responsible for managing the alleged payments to Abalos and Koldo García, which would come from falsifying public works contracts.
After learning the content of the UCO report, Serrano declared that he felt “shocked, saddened and deeply hurt” in a message published on the social network “X”, in which he also said that what the Civil Guard described “is not compatible with Santos Cerdán”, with whom he has worked “for the past three years”.