The Interior Ministry, through the Director General of the Civil Guard, has appointed Colonel Pedro Merino Castro as the new head of the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard, replacing Colonel Rafael Yuste, according to reports. Eldiario.es And ARA has been able to confirm this through ministry sources.

A reshuffle is underway at the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard, instigated by the Spanish government. The Council of Ministers will approve tomorrow the promotion of Colonel Rafael Yuste Arenes to Brigadier General, which will entail his departure as head of the UCO, according to reports. Eldiario.es and government sources confirm to ARA. The UCO is the specialized unit that, among other things, is participating in the investigation of the legal cases surrounding Pedro Sánchez – for example, prepared the report which led to the indictment of Santos Cerdán or accredited that the Attorney General deleted the messages from his mobile phone the day the Supreme Court indicted him—. Rafael Yuste had been in charge of the UCO for two and a half years—he arrived in June 2023 replacing Alfonso López Malo—and has now been promoted after passing the course and ranking first in his class in the evaluation.

The Civil Guard and the Supreme Court are making progress in the investigation of the Cerdán case. While the former Secretary of Organization of the PSOE has been in Soto del Real prison for almost five months, a new report from the Central Operational Unit (UCO) places him as a "liaison" between the Ministry of Transport and Acciona, the construction company allegedly involved in irregular public works contracts. In return, he or his associates received "personal profit" from Servinabar, the company linked to Santos Cerdán (according to the UCO). bought 45%, a version whose defense denies), which had a close economic link with Acciona. The Civil Guard report, to which ARA has had access, was the trigger for the records from last week at different Acciona and other locations indictment of three executives Those linked to the company have been summoned to testify on December 3rd.

A new report from the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard points to the "influence" that commission agent Víctor de Aldama may have had on the Canary Islands government of Ángel Víctor Torres (PSOE), the current Minister of Territorial Policy, in the purchase of contracts for masks and antigen tests during the pandemic. Specifically, the UCO report, presented this Monday to the National Court and accessed by ARA, indicates that Aldama's influence was exerted through the former Minister of Transport, José Luis Ábalos, and his former advisor, Koldo García. Thus, the Canary Islands government of Ángel Víctor Torres would be implicated, according to the UCO report, in the alleged corruption scheme surrounding Aldama, Ábalos, and Koldo, which originated in alleged illegal payments for the purchase of masks during the pandemic. For this reason, the People's Party (PP) has called for the minister's immediate dismissal.

We have reached the climax, the collective orgasm of total disaster. After weeks, months, and years of news about successive and respective cases affecting the two major Spanish parties, we have reached the peak of the scandal with the publication of the report by the Central Operative Unit of the Civil Guard (UCO), on the commissions allegedly received and shared by the magnificent trio Koldo-Ábalos-Cerdá.

Faced with the devastating report from the UCO, the Civil Guard unit leading the investigation into the Koldo case, Pedro Sánchez had only one option to try to protect himself in the Moncloa Palace. Repeat with Santos Cerdán, his right-hand man until now, the same operation he already carried out with José Luis Ábalos, his previous right-hand man: portray him as a rotten apple within the party, distance himself from his organization secretary, and dispel suspicions that this is a case of systemic corruption by the PSOE and the government, despite the fact that in the Civil Guard report.

The Central Operative Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard searched the home of former Socialist minister José Luis Ábalos in Valencia for more than nine hours on Tuesday. The search of the home of the now deputy of the mixed group, ordered by Judge Leopoldo Puente, is part of the investigation opened against him in the Supreme Court for the Koldo case, involving alleged cash and in-kind commissions in exchange for contracts for medical supplies and public works during the pandemic. Civil Guard sources specified that the investigation falls under a separate, secret file.

Ramón del Valle-Inclán (Vilanova de Arousa, 1866 - Santiago de Compostela, 1936) was a key figure in Spanish literature in the first third of the 20th century with works such as Lights of Bohemia, where she develops the theory of the grotesque. Since then, this word has been used to define tragicomic spectacles such as the one witnessed this Wednesday in a Madrid hotel with the appearance of the now former PSOE member Leire Díez and the appearance of the businessman accused of corruption, Víctor de Aldama, to rebuke her. But let's take it one step at a time.