Politician's Friend's Company Paid His Rent and Hired Relatives

The Navarrese company Servinabar, owned by the Basque entrepreneur Antxon Alonso, a friend of former PSOE Organization Secretary Santos Cerdán—who has been in preventive custody since June 30th by order of the Supreme Court—covered the rent of an apartment in central Madrid (Hilarión Eslava street) for the Navarre socialist until he was imprisoned. Servinabar was awarded public works contracts in a Temporary Business Association (UTE) with Acciona. It also spent over 7,000 euros on furniture. Family hires and card expenses. The police report reveals that, in addition to paying the monthly rent for the Cerdán family's home in Madrid, Servinabar (75% of whose billing came from contracts with Acciona) also hired Cerdán's sister, his brother-in-law (his wife's brother), and his own wife, who invoiced the company through the Norma Coop cooperative. The contractual relationship between Cerdán's sister, Belén Cerdán, and Servinabar began in 2020 and «could have extended until mid-2025». One of the messages seized from the advisor to the former minister in 2023 reveals that he indicated he would get three people linked to Merino into the Ministry of Transport. Source: ABC. For the lease of this property, the Civil Guard concludes that the company paid a total of 44,645 euros. Cerdán's wife, Francisca Muñoz, joined the Noran Coop cooperative as a «worker partner» in 2018 and received 9,500 euros in five transfers. According to the report, Cerdán also had access to up to 33,574 euros on Bankinter and Caixabank credit cards charged to Servinabar, in the name of its owner, Antxon Alonso. The society through which she was contracted, Erkolan, received a total of 379,577 euros monthly from Servinabar between December 8, 2015, and May 28, 2025. In the case of his brother-in-law, Antonio Muñoz Cano, Servinabar made up to 69 transfers totaling 53,130 euros between October 1, 2019, and December 16, 2022. On that date, the first contact between Fernando Merino (a former Acciona Construction employee), Koldo García (advisor to José Luis Ábalos), and Antxon Alonso, owner of Servinabar, was detected. This is detailed in the latest 227-page report from the Civil Guard's Central Operational Unit (UCO), delivered to the High Court magistrate, which has led Leopoldo Puente to summon three Acciona executives to testify on December 3. Related news: If Servinabar took two million from the Centenary Bridge project with a single worker: Cerdán's brother-in-law, Jesús Díaz. The new UCO report reveals that Acciona subcontracted the company linked to the former PSOE Secretary of Organization. The cited report states that «around the time of the no-confidence motion that changed the Spanish Government in June 2018, a new rental fee began to be paid from Servinabar's accounts, this time for a property located on Hilarión Eslava street in Madrid, corresponding to Santos' family home until July 2025». The Civil Guard warns that «payments have been located that, due to their characteristics and the location of the establishment that made the charge, could be attributed to Santos or his family circle». For her, payments worth 22,324 euros have been found. According to the Supreme Court's investigation, various tenders could have been rigged so that the company of Cerdán's friend would get the contracts and he would receive an illegal kickback or commission of up to 2% of the award. On that date, Cerdán was a deputy in the Parliament of Navarre. The dates and different accounts of the investigated parties lead to the conclusion that it was Cerdán who introduced Koldo García to the Ministry of Transport, and that is where the plot developed. Starting point. The report goes back to the origin of the relationship between Acciona and Servinabar, taking September 2015 as its starting point.