New developments in the Cerdán case have multiplied in recent hours. This is because Judge Leopoldo Puente, who is investigating the alleged corruption scheme at the Supreme Court, lifted the secrecy order on Tuesday. the latest report from the Civil Guardwhich tightens the net around the former number three of the PSOE. The importance that the magistrate gives to the evidence collected and the fact that the risk of its destruction has disappeared have even led him to release Santos Cerdán on bail, imprisoned in Soto del Real for more than four months.

Santos Cerdán had been in the spotlight for days. by a report from the Central Operational Unit (UCO) that was under seal as part of a separate part of the Koldo case in the Supreme Court. Both the number three of the PSOE and the Socialists had until now shielded themselves by saying that no one had this document, which supposedly implicated the party's organizational secretary in a scheme of illegal kickbacks in the awarding of public works contracts. Finally, the report, almost 500 pages long, was released this Thursday and has caused a political earthquakeThe UCO (Central University of Catalonia) estimates at €620,000 the alleged financial compensation "managed" by Cerdán for José Luis Ábalos, former Minister of Transport, and his former advisor Koldo García in exchange for public works contracts. The document, to which ARA has had access, also includes the transcription of a total of eight audio recordings from between 2019 and 2023, of which Cerdán appears in five.