Cerdán was the owner of one of the companies involved in the corrupt scheme.

BarcelonaInformation about the corruption scandal involving the last two PSOE organizational secretaries is slowly emerging. The police force has already handed over the report to Judge Leopoldo Puente. This report, to which ARA has had access, confirms the existence of a document revealing that Santos Cerdán owned 45% of the company Servinabar, which was awarded contracts by the Navarre government worth over €75 million.Eldiario.es.

The revelation has already had repercussions for the Socialist Party of Navarre, which was Cerdán's federation until he left the PSOE. The number two member of the Navarrese Socialists, Ramón Alzórriz, has resigned after admitting that his partner worked for this company between 2021 and 2024, a job he helped her obtain. In a press conference, Alzórriz stated that until now he was unaware that Cerdán was a partner in Servinabar, and that as soon as he found out, he explained it to the party leader and president of Navarre, María Chivite.

By his own admission, Chivite told him that she had "lost confidence" in him for not having informed her earlier about his wife's situation. In response, Alzórriz has opted to leave his positions in the party and as spokesperson in the Parliament of Navarre, although he will continue as a regional deputy. "I don't want to harm my party or the government of Navarre," she said. Chivite has already commissioned an audit of the PSN (Socialist Party) during the period in which Cerdán was head of organization, following in the footsteps of Pedro Sánchez. From the opposition, the UPN (National Union of Public Prosecutors) is already calling for the resignation of the president of Navarre, who it believes has run out of "excuses."

The UCO (National University of Navarre) has been stretching the thread until finding evidence linking Cerdán to this company. In a search of the Vizcaya home of businessman Joseba Antxón Alonso Egurrola last week, they identified "a private deed of sale of shares" between Alonso Egurrola and Cerdán. Dated June 1, 2016, Alonso Egurrola transferred to Cerdán "1,350 of the 3,000 shares" that constituted the company. This was a year after the alleged corruption began, according to investigators.

Navarra appears in the case

Following this information, and before the resignation of the number two of the Navarrese Socialists, the Chivite government has announced that it will appear as a private prosecutor in the Koldo case, which "does not appear in any notarial act" and that the administration has "never" been aware of it

During the searches, the Civil Guard located two identical invoices issued (same date in a different year and same amount) by the Noran cooperative at the Servinabar company, one on 2 2021, each for an amount of 79,678.50 euros. This move raises suspicions because, according to the UCO report with which the case broke outThe former PSOE organizational secretary "had decision-making power over the companies Servinabar and Noran Coop," although he is not formally listed on the governing bodies of the latter company. In a proceeding to which ARA has had access, the police force demands information on five bank accounts: one at BBVA, two at CaixaBank, and two at Caja Rural de Navarra, and requests from the banks "information suspected of money laundering" if the request is made. The former PSOE organizational secretary may have authorization to make transactions.

The Civil Guard operation has not only extracted information about Cerdán. One of the main searches was at the Valencia home of former minister José Luis Ábalos. According to the police report, when officers arrived, Ábalos tried to evade the Civil Guard: a woman who was with him was about to leave the home with a hard drive hidden in her pants, under the guise of taking the dog for a walk. According to the search report, as the woman was leaving, Ábalos told her to take "something for breakfast, and she went inside a room in the house." This suggestion aroused the police suspicion, as when a Civil Guard officer searched the woman and found that she was carrying "something hidden in her pants."

It was a blue external hard drive, WD-My Passport, which ended up in the evidence bag despite Ábalos's attempt. Apart from this hard drive, the police also took the former minister's phone, a black iPhone 1s, a black iPhone 1s, 20 USB memory sticks from his office and yet another Samsung mobile phone.

Beyond these issues, the proceedings also record that during the search of Alonso Egurrola's home, the UCO found €16,180 in cash spread across three zip-lock bags – one containing €11,350, another containing €1,800, and a third containing €3,030 – that were hidden.

In addition, the UCO mentions on several occasions the findings of documents on temporary business associations (UTE), a legal mechanism that allows two or more companies to join forces temporarily to carry out a project or provide a specific service. Despite being legal, this mechanism is not without controversy, as it allows the companies that join forces to obtain higher scores in public tenders and affects the rest of the candidates for the contract. The National Commission on Markets and Competition (CNMC) has targeted it.