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Santos Cerdán has confirmed that he will testify before the Supreme on the occasion of the UCO report

Judge Leopoldo Puente has seen evidence of a crime in the latest UCO report, according to which Cerdán participated in the alleged irregular award of "certain public works" with Ábalos and his former adviser Koldo García, who will give explanations on 25 June. 

MADRID, 12/06/2025.- El diputado socialista Santos Cerdán en el hemiciclo del Congreso este jueves. EFE/ Borja Sanchez-Trillo

PSOE's Secretary of Organization, Santos Cerdán, has announced on Thursday that he will testify before the Supreme Court, as offered by the judge, but has said that he has not yet read the UCO report, which attributes to a construction company the management of payments of 620,000 euros in "compensation".

When he left the Chamber of Congress and the journalists asked him if he would come to testify voluntarily before the Supreme on 25 June, he replied, "Yes, I will."

The media outside the House asked him if he had read the report and, without stopping, he said "not yet." 

Supreme Court Judge Leopoldo Puente has allowed the PSOE Secretary of Organization, Santos Cerdán , to testify voluntarily on 25 June, finding "strong evidence" of his participation in an unfair award of public works in exchange for price. 

According to the car, these indications appear in the latest report of the Central Operational Unit of theCivil Guard (UCO) , which suggests that Cerdán participated hand in hand in the alleged irregular award of "certain public works" with former Minister José Luis Ábalos and his former adviser Koldo García. 

Stressing that, for the time being, they are of a "indicative nature" and that the "phase itself" of the proceedings is "provisional", according to the judge conducting the Koldo case, if the evidence were to be proved it would be "crimes of belonging to a criminal organization and bribery". 

As a Member of Congress, Santos Cerdán, the Magistrate has given him the opportunity to give voluntary explanations on 25 June, assisted by counsel, as a preliminary step to the possibility of filing an appeal with the Lower House. 

As the report has revealed the "new criminal facts" that sprinkle Ábalos and his former adviser, the judge has also summoned them to testify on 24 June. 

This car partially eliminates the secrecy of the case and puts an end to the separate piece containing the report dated 5 June, which was searched last Tuesday in the house of former Minister Ábalos and the companies of Navarra, Bizkaia, Valencia and Granada. 

With regard to Santos Cerdán, the judge explains that a reasoned explanation must now be given to the Admissions Chamber of the Supreme Court to determine whether there is sufficient reason to bring criminal proceedings against Cerdán. 

According to the report to which the judge refers, the Civil Guard found in the devices seized from Koldo Garcia "some recordings" that would splash Santos Cerdán. 

The UCO is based on these recordings of alleged public awards and identifies works which, according to indications, could have been "unfairly" awarded with the alleged intervention of Ábalos. According to the report, Ábalos would have participated in these awards "in agreement with third parties" and from the head of the Ministry of Transport "in exchange for a price or financial compensation", according to the order that gave rise to the searches.

When news of conversations between Ábalos, Koldo García and Santos Cerdán about an alleged debt of the contracting companies came to light, Cerdán himself said he had not participated in such conversations and had not committed any contractual fraud. 

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