The investigation into the National court on the alleged system of commissions in public contracts linked to the PSOE plumber Leire Díez focused on several enclaves of Seville linked to the environment of Vicente Fernándezformer president of SEPI … and considered for years the right hand of María Jesús Montero. Yesterday, the UCO deployed a device that went from a bar on the island of La Cartuja up to one law firm based in the Futurestudying the economic and corporate movements linked to the former senior official and other persons investigated in the case led by the Central Investigating Court number 6.
One of the scenarios in this procedure was The ballthe restaurant located on Marie Curie Avenue, next to the symbolic Climate Sphere of the 1992 Universal Exhibition, of which Fernández appears as the sole administrator since 2023, once separated from his responsibilities within the Junta de Andalucía and SEPI. According to sources close to the case, agents are analyzing whether this establishment could have served as a money laundering channel coming from commissions allegedly charged by the structure investigated, with companies such as Servinabarlinked to Santos Cerdán. The UCO is trying to determine whether part of these funds would have been hidden by accounting movements and operations linked to the activity of the premises.
La Bola is known in Seville for serving as a nighttime bar with drinks and music as well as a summer disco, although since 2015 it has reopened its doors as a specialist in breakfasts and menus for students and workers of the La Cartuja Science and Technology Park. It is managed by the company La Bola Innovación SLestablished on December 9, 2014 as a hospitality, catering, cafeteria, bar and catering services company. Its sole director since June 12, 2023 is Vicente Fernández.
The bar’s cash flow has increased by 700% in just one year since Vicente Fernández took over the establishment
According to its annual accounts consulted at Trade Registerthe turnover of the La Bola bar has multiplied by more than 130% since 2021. The turnover that year was 167,453 euros while the following year it amounted to 299,539 and, in 2023, to 386,996. The company’s figures were also positive in terms of debtgiven that It was reduced by 61% in a single year. The most relevant data is the management of species in the bar. He Free cash flow increased by 700% in just one year.
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UCO’s activity is not limited to this hotel enclave. The agents also showed up at the law firm’s headquarters. Legal study SdP, located on avenue Cardinal Bueno Monreal, and in the office he has in the Spanish capital, on the street Diego de Leon.
The investigators came to ask for documents relating to different files, contracts and legal advice this could be linked to the facts investigated. The firm has professionals who, according to the sources consulted, have been involved in corporate and commercial operations linked to people in the sector The surroundings of Fernández.
Although the intervention in both places This happened without surprise and without the agents being able to cordon off the scene.the presence of the UCO in front of the office attracted attention in a neighborhood accustomed to professional and office trips, but not to police actions at this level.
Specifically, it was in the office located in Madrid where, allegedly, the PSOE plumber Leire Diez He met with businessmen to look for “dirty laundry” regarding police commanders, judges and prosecutors.
These two searches in Seville are part of twenty actions carried out this Thursday by the UCO throughout the national territory, according to investigative sources reported to ABC. Specifically, the National Court ordered a total of 19 records in Madrid, Seville and Zaragozaas part of this investigation which already has three detainees: Leire Díez, Vicente Fernández and Joseba Antxon, Santos Cerdán’s associate in Servinabar.
One of the points of interest is the Enusa Buildinga public company managed by Mariano Morenoknown as the manager of cash envelopes at the PSOE headquarters in Ferraz. The former director of the PSOE was questioned as a witness before the Supreme Court by the Koldo affair.
Outside of Madrid, in Zaragoza, the epicenter of the investigations is the headquarters of Forestaliaa company dedicated to green energy where contracts are sought based on public prices obtained in recent years.
The intention of the researchers is to identify contracts, reports and consulting operations that could fit into the pattern analyzed by the National Court: the possible obtaining public funds through irregular allocations, andl posterior misappropriation of part of these profits to companies or companies controlled or linked to those investigated between 2021 and 2023, and the traceability of money.
This last chapter includes both the activity of the Cartuja bar and the commercial or corporate documentation managed from the Porvenir office. The researchers’ hypothesis is that both scenarios can offer complementary information on the routes used to move funds and hide their origin.
These actions are part of a much larger operation that continues under summary secrecy and this has already generated records in different regions of Spain. The case attempts to define the role of each of the people and companies involved, as well as the volume of money allegedly embezzled and the mechanisms used to do so.
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