The disputed inheritance of 2,000 million Ángel Luengo

Saica, Pikolín, Jorge, Grupo Costa … Aragon is the land of great corporations owned by large families, whose history has marked the economic development of the region both in this century and in the previous one. Without pretending, the most media of They in recent months, is that of Ángel Luengo Martínezthe businessman who made Sa Minera Catalano Aragonese (Samca) a totally referential conglomerate in the region, and for whose fortune (2,015 million euros), the number 28 of the country, According to the latest list of The richest in Spain, that the world publishes, several of its heirs maintain a legal dispute.

In July 2022, almost a year after his death at age 92, Ángel and Javier Luengo Sanz, two of his eight children, and Caroline Luengo Barnaud, One of his 15 grandchildren ran to the courts after knowing that their grandfather and father had decided to give up 100% of Samca to two grandchildren, with the intention of Keep the legacy that he built for more than 50 years. Thus, a judicial battle started that both parties carry with a stealth sepulchral, ​​and that still copes, due to the greatest heritage of Aragon in the hands of a single person: the first local fortune, the Balet Aragüés saga, owner of the Saica paperwork, is distributed between Dozens of relatives of the third generation.

Luengo created a business network that functions as a Swiss watch without relying on third parties

 

Luengo disinherited They asked for the nullity of the inheritance claiming that Aurora Sanz, Widow of the Magnate And also deceased (died in 2023), lacked the capacity to grant the will at the time it was written (it was running 2010), Due to the mental sequelae of a traffic accident that had suffered a year earlier. In addition, they blame the entrepreneur to take advantage of the situation and supplant his wife’s will, cheating her to sign.

The arguments did not convince the judge and, in September 2024, the Court of First Instance number 2 of Zaragoza issued that “from the medical reports made […] It is not accredited that Doña Aurora suffered a cognitive impairment that prevented him from having the capacity to grant the litigious succession pact. “Thus, Sanz I was aware of what he signedconcludes the judge, when his children disconnected his children from the company’s future. Not so of the totality of heritage, since all, both children and grandchildren, received various economic quantities or other goods.

There is no deception evidence

As for the accusations of alleged deception and abuse of his wife, the judge estimated that there is no evidence to support him, since he cannot give any value to the testimonies of the spouses of two of the plaintiffs, Javier and Caroline, for its unquestionable bias.

Despite this, and It is the point where the litigation is located At present, the plaintiffs did not resign and exercised their right to resort, since they maintain that the sentence is “anachronistic and incurs errors in the appreciation of the evidence and the application of the legal foundations.” They also claim that it is dictated “with total ignorance of the constitutional values ​​that were in question in the procedure, which are not even addressed.”

According to the judge, his widow was aware of what he signed when he discouraged his children from the business group

 

It should be noted that the marriage, as the ruling also reveals, had already decided in 2003 that his heirs would be two of his fifteen grandchildren, changing the text of the initial will, Always jointly, in which they named three of their children as successors.

And with all this case, the question is: who are the heirs? The world has tried to contact Javier and Guillermo Luengo Egido -the children of Enrique Luengo Sanz -but none of them has agreed to participate in this report. The two are distributed the main executive positions of the group of companies created by their grandfather and maintain an extremely low profile, far from foci and media, so that there are hardly any graphic records of his.

That decision to go under the radar, difficult to maintain in current times, is also direct inheritance of his grandfather, of which there are only images of when I was already an advanced age.

The Luengo Empire

Ángel Luengo (La Hoz de la Vieja, Teruel, 1928) found in the diversification and full reinvestment of his profits the formula to become a business totem and make Samca a immense conglomerate with more than 4,000 employees Distributed in 11 countries (Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Norway, Iceland, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru).

An empire in which the sun does not put on and that took its first steps because the aforementioned Turolense businessman exercised Samca’s purchase from the Cros group in the 70s, in the middle of the oil crisis. At that time, the company walked towards the suspension of payments, with 400 workers on the verge of dismissal. Together with his father, since the 40s, Luengo had dedicated himself to the sale of coal. In mining, saved the crisis thanks To its commitment, from the first minute, by a mechanized model capable of increasing and making coal production in underground mines more efficient.

A first decision that serves as an example of the strategy that has led Samca to success and that, simplifying, is based on investing everything won in itself, to be able, later, to win much more.

Following this strategy, in the 80s, Luengo undertook the beginning of the group’s diversification towards non -energy mining, with the birth of companies such as EUROARCE About myth, Leaders in the exploitation and marketing of absorbent clays with sand applications for cats, animal feed and other industrial uses.

Along the way, Luengo also invested in real estate and land. Since the 90s he was defined as the largest owner of fruit farms in Spain, with seals known as Frotario, Santa Inés, Infrusesa y saar. Samca currently operates near 10,000 hectares of crops. Livestock exploits (4,000 heads) and dairy, with companies such as Pyrenean of Ham, Livestock Tauste and Utebo dairy.

Mining contributed gasoline to grow organically in sectors the textile and renewables, where it has A 1 GW portfolio, 70% operational. In the summer of 2024, the Samca Plastics Division acquired blown containers (Enso) to the Ged Capital Fund, for an unleashed amount. Enso is based in Andújar (Jaén) and Fabrica Packaging For waters and oils.

TMI, are RAMA logistics, a new container terminal in 2023 ended in Tamarite of the letter (Huesca), the main railway transport of merchandise in Spain, with capacity for more than 1,000 trains per year, thanks to a 15 -year -old granting contract with Adif.

Ángel Luengo created a business network that, today, after his death, continues to function Like a Swiss watch and without depending on third parties.