The report from the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Guardia Civil details the triangular relationship between former PSOE Organization secretary Santos Cerdán, his friend and owner of the Servinabar company, Joseba Antxon Alonso, and the former CEO of Acciona Justo’s construction division Vicente Pelegrini, who met on several occasions in 2019 to establish the “contractual relations” with which they would then feed illegal commissions to the conspiracy. The agents suspect that the conspiracy had specifically rented an apartment in the center of Madrid, in Fuencarral 94 street, for this type of meeting.
The armed institute suspects, in fact, that Antxon Alonso had owned the property since June 2019, about a year after the arrival of Pedro Sánchez in La Moncloa and the former Minister of Development José Luis Ábalos occupied the portfolio in charge of allocating money for infrastructure works. On June 6, Alonso had already sent the address of Fuencarral’s apartment to his partner in a message.
Among the documentation seized at the Navarre headquarters in Servinabar, the agents found the rental proposal for this house. This document contained the intention to rent the property for an amount of 1,600 euros per month, for a period of one year, extendable. Although the date of entry into the apartment was July 8, the UCO believes that the entrepreneur had already had it in the previous month.
On June 12, 2019 Antxon Alonso contacted “Antonio Rental” and sent him an image of a calendar showing the availability of the apartment. The UCO analyzed the metadata of the photographs found on the businessman’s cell phone and concluded that many of these images were captured in the “vicinity” of Fuencarral Street. For example, the photo of Vicente Pelegrini with Santos Cerdán on his back while he has a drink at the bar of the El Pentagrama club.
A few days later, on June 20 of that year, Antxon Alonso first met the owner of the apartment and that same day sent his wife several photographs of Cerdán and Pelegrini inside the house. The Guardia Civil explains that “based on the location associated with these snapshots” the Navarre businessman’s telephone number can be located exactly at Fuencarral 94 street. There, therefore, they believe that the photographs reproduced by all the media from this Tuesday were captured in which, according to the UCO, the former director of Acciona – who the Supreme Court has just indicted – was observed chatting with Cerdán when he was secretary of the Territorial Coordination of the PSOE.
The property has a small living room with an integrated white kitchen. There is a dark sofa with several cushions, a painting on the wall under the air conditioning and a small table in front of the television hanging on the wall. Above the television, three clocks and next to a door that seems to lead to a room. The police report shows a zoom to the papers that are on the living room table, since they claim that the corruption network planned its solutions with pen and paper, and then destroyed the notes and left no trace.
Finally that day Antxon Alonso wrote again to the man who appears to be the owner of the property to inform him that he had left the keys inside the apartment. On July 8, the day scheduled for the move, the landlord wrote: “Good morning Antxon. We are preparing the apartment. From four in the afternoon you have it at your disposal. I’m going to read the supplies to make the change to the bank transfer. I need you to send me the account on which you want the supplies to be debited to facilitate them for the electricity, gas and water company.”
Even though Cerdán’s friend signed the contract, it is clear that on several trips to the capital he stayed in different hotels. On June 20th and July 17th at the Hotel Chamartín and on the 25th of last month at the Meliá Castilla. This fact, combined with the fact that Cerdán already resided in an apartment on Hilarión Eslava street and Pelegrini was registered in another house in Madrid, confirm the UCO’s indications that the Fuencarral property “could have been used to hold meetings and not as a possible home for any of the three”.
In that period, in fact, the contracts relating to a motorway in Logroño, the centenary bridge in Seville and the works on the Sant Feliu de Llobregat railway (Barcelona), which investigators believe were rigged, were being liquidated. Antxon Alonso’s small company was presumably in charge of channeling the commissions, around 2% of each work, which were then distributed between Cerdán, Koldo García and Ábalos, as suggested by the audio found during the search of the latter’s home. According to the UCO, 75% of Servinabar’s revenue came from Acciona. Around six million euros, as emerged from the judicial investigation in July.
