A judge of The National Court ordered his arrest as well as Leire Diezknown as plumber of the PSOE, five days after the Seville court acquitted him and 15 other Council officials of allegations of irregularities in the tender for the Aznalcóllar mine.
This complaint was filed in 2015, when Fernández was Secretary General of Innovation, Industry and Energy of the Ministry of Economy, Innovation, Science and Employment.
Comrades of the Andalusian PSOE, shocked by his arrest, assure EL ESPAÑOL that “He was one more victim of judge Mercedes Alaya“.
Alaya He reopened the investigation twice and did not even take into account the prosecutor’s criteria.who requested the archive up to seven times, nor the UCO report, which did not appreciate the irregularities after finding nearly 125,000 emails from former senior officials already acquitted.
Leire Díaz herself, although her name had not yet appeared on the national public scene, was present at the first sessions of the trial. This was before she was known for her shenanigans to try to obtain sensitive information against the anti-corruption prosecution and, precisely, against the UCO.
Vicente Fernández is more unknown because your most technical profile. However, his career within Andalusian governments is extensive.
Entered by opposition to the Body of Lawyers of the Junta de Andalucía in 1999number one in his class at the age of 26, was responsible for legal advice to different departments of the Council during the socialist governments until 2018.
He also served as secretary to the boards of directors of the Public Asset Management Corporation; the Asset Management, Financing and Investment Company and Cartuja 93.
In 2018, he entered the national scene with the help of Montero, who entrusted him with command of SEPI. He barely lasted 15 months in power because in October 2019 Aznalcóllar’s accusation forced him to resign.
Both strengthened their relationship when in 2016 Vicente Fernández began working with Montero as auditor general of the Junta de Andalucía until June 2018, when she was responsible for the Treasury Department of the Council, under the last socialist government of Susana Díaz.
It was then that he met Leire Díaz. In fact, she actively participated in the attempt to reintegrate María Jesús Montero into SEPI when he was released, as this newspaper reported last May.
From then on, a period of a year and a half opened with the vacant presidency, which was occupied on an interim basis by Vice President Bartolomé Lora with the aim of returning Fernández to his post.
At this time, Leire Díez maneuvered to attempt his public and professional rehabilitation. But also to force the filing of the file or its cancellation.
To this end, he did not hesitate to speak with journalists and the media to obtain a current of opinion favorable to the dismissal of the case. A job she did while she was communications director for the public company Enusa, in which Sepi participates.
Signed by Servinabar
However, given the failure of his strategy, Vicente Fernández signed for the construction company Servinabar 2000 SLlinked to Santos Cerdán after the awards studied by the UCO.
The company of Antxon Alonso – former associate of Koldo García – and Cerdán hired him in May 2021 and kept him there for a year and a half.
According to the Transparency portal, Fernández requested authorization from the Conflict of Interest Office to work for the Navarrese construction company investigated and for the Martínez Escribano Abogados y Economistas office on May 19, 2021, the lawyer who defended him precisely in the Aznalcóllar case.
It is for this reason that he was summoned last July before the Senate commission of inquiry into the conspiracy and took advantage of his right not to testify.
Last June, María Jesús Montero herself claimed to have “no idea where” Fernández, who left the ministry “five or six years ago”, precisely after becoming “a victim” of Judge Alaya, worked.
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