and the former president of the SEPI (State Society of Industrial Participations) Vicente Fernández have been arrested this Wednesday by agents of the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard, as sources familiar with the case have confirmed to EL PAÍS. Both arrests are part of a procedure related to public procurement, promoted by the Investigative Court Number 6 of the National Court, headed by Judge Antonio Piña. The operation remains open under the supervision of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, according to legal and police sources.
Díez (52 years old, Bilbao), who remains in the Civil Guard cells in Tres Cantos, is also accused in another case of bribery and influence peddling being investigated by Court Number 9 of Madrid, in which the public ministry attributes to her the “leadership” of a “criminal plan” to “discredit” the leadership of the UCO and the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office with the aim of “annulling” cases that “They affect politicians and businessmen.” She presented herself as an investigative reporter who has spent years investigating the so-called sewers of the State, denies irregularities and defends herself: “It seems that journalistic activism was invented by me,” she exclaimed on Wednesday in a television interview.
Díez was socialist deputy mayor in the Cantabrian municipality of Vega de Pas after the 2011 elections. And, already with Pedro Sánchez in La Moncloa, she was appointed head of communication for Enusa between 2018 and 2021, when the public uranium company was chaired by a leader close to José Luis Ábalos, secretary of Socialist Organization and Minister of Transport at that time. Later, between 2022 and 2024, she was director of Philately and Institutional Relations at Correos, from where she left thanking Juan Manuel Serrano, who was president of the postal company and former chief of staff of Pedro Sánchez before arriving at La Moncloa.
Vicente Fernández Guerrero (Málaga, 52 years old) became president of the SEPI in 2018, after the investiture of Pedro Sánchez, and resigned a year later, in 2019. Sources from the Company assure that they do not know of any records at its facilities.
He ended up working years later at Servinabar, one of the companies linked to the ‘Cerdán case‘. Fernández Guerrero in a case in the Seville Court for the award of the Aznalcóllar mine (Seville), of which he was acquitted along with the rest of the 15 defendants.
Previously, Fernández Guerrero was general auditor of the Junta de Andalucía, the highest internal control and accounting body of the Andalusian Administration. He was also general secretary of Innovation, Industry and Energy in that autonomous community between 2012 and 2016. The now detained man served as secretary on the boards of directors of public companies, such as the Public Asset Management Company, the Society for Asset Management, Financing and Investment, and Cartuja 93. Last July he appeared before the Senate parliamentary commission investigating the Cerdán case, but he availed himself of his right not to testify.
