The Supreme Court is investigating Cerdán and Koldo's economic ties to the PSOE.

MadridThe day before the opening ceremony of the judicial year, marked by the controversial presence of the State Attorney General Prosecuted in the Supreme Court for revealing secrets, High Court Judge Leopoldo Puente has reactivated another of Pedro Sánchez's legal fronts. The investigating judge in the Cerdán case (also known as Ábalos or Koldo) requested information this Thursday about the exchange of money between the PSOE and two of the suspects. A move that fuels suspicions about possible illegal financing of the party, although the socialist leader categorically denied it once again this Monday in an interview with TVE. Puente is acting at the request of the Central Operational Unit (UCO) to track the financial ties of former Socialist number three Santos Cerdán and former advisor at the Ministry of Transport Koldo García with the PSOE and also with institutions such as Congress, the Parliament of Navarre, and the Milagro City Council.

A couple of months ago, Puente You have already requested this information about José Luis Ábalos, the former Minister of Transport and former secretary of the Socialist organization that completes the alleged corruption plot. So that the UCO can "conclude the financial reports" of the case, the instructor adds to the request regarding Ábalos the one concerning Cerdán, Koldo and also the former advisor's ex-wife, Patricia Uriz, and his brother, Joseba García. The judge gives the PSOE seven calendar days to send detailed documentation on "dues, donations, expense settlements, service payments, remuneration or other payments" that it could have received or given since 2014 to Cerdán, both García brothers and Uriz.

In the case of the former number three of the party, Puente's ruling argues that the amount recorded in the Tax Agency for the donations that Cerdán allegedly made to the PSOE, which amounts to 32,194.98 euros, does not match the transfers for this concept that they have found in the banking information of in provisional prison, which is lower, at 5,700 euros. This banking information "also reveals the existence of payments to Cerdán from both the PSOE and the Socialist parliamentary group," the judge notes. To verify that the amount paid by the Socialist parliamentary group matches the payments he should have received for his work as a deputy, the Supreme Court also requests information from Congress. It is the same thing it did with Ábalos.

In Cerdán's case, the ruling states that the Tax Agency records income of 543,656.84 euros from Congress between 2014 and 2024, but that only a "much smaller" amount came to him directly from the lower house. This is the same finding as the Supreme Court made with Ábalos. At that time, the PSOE clarified that each elected deputy "receives their salary from the Socialist parliamentary group, not from Congress." "The voluntary contribution is deducted from that salary. And, on the other hand, the deputy pays a fee to the party, like all PSOE members," party sources explained to justify these discrepancies between the amounts registered with the Tax Agency and those in the banking information.

As for Koldo, the ruling focuses on two payments made to him by the party "without the nature and possible extent of these payments being known at the time." One is for 1,435.4 euros, made on May 28, 2018, and another for 2,542.46 euros on September 5, 2019. While information is only requested regarding the former advisor from the PSOE, Puente also requires documentation on remuneration or payments to Cerdán in the Parliament of Navarre and the City Council of Milagro, where he attends the Parliament of Navarre.