Servinabar owner Antxón Alonso testifies today as a suspect in the Supreme Court.

This morning, the Supreme Court will hear from Antxón Alonso, the director of Servinabar, the Navarrese company at the center of the kickback scandal in that region and in which Santos Cerdán apparently holds a 45% stake that has not been formally registered.

Fernando Agustín Merino, former Acciona representative in Navarra and La Rioja, who is also charged in this case, will also testify this Monday.

Merino was fired from the company in 2021, but the successive reports on Judge Puente's desk clearly show that he collaborated closely with another of the parties involved in the case, Koldo García, with whom Cerdán and José Luis Ábalos were in collusion.

However, the most relevant testimony will be Alonso's, first and foremost because he can clarify for the investigators what relationship the former PSOE organizational secretary, Santos Cerdán—currently imprisoned in Soto del Real—had with the events under investigation, and especially whether illegal kickbacks were paid. More importantly, Alonso should be able to clarify where the money went. So far, no illicit assets have been found against Santos Cerdán.

According to police reports, Alonso allegedly gave Cerdán cash, sometimes in 500-euro bills, to secure contracts for Servinabar.

Judge Puente has requested additional information from the UCO regarding the bank accounts and financial transactions of the businessmen and their companies, after detecting signs of improper awarding.

But there's another politically relevant implication. The connection between Alonso and Cerdán isn't limited exclusively to any potential business ventures in which they might participate.

Cerdán, in his statement before the Supreme Court before being sent to prison, explained that the businessman also served as a political mediator in negotiations with Basque nationalists.

In fact, Arnaldo Otegi, the leader of EH Bildu, admitted in a press conference last week that the Servinabar administrator was indeed the one who introduced him to Santos Cerdán when the Socialist leader was trying to approach the party. Cerdán also claimed that he served as a link with the Basque Nationalist Party, something the group led by Aitor Esteban has categorically denied.

In the Basque Country and Navarre, the statements of the two defendants will be listened to with great attention today.

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