The death of the Spanish shipowner Fernando Fernández Tapias on October 25 at the age of 84 took his surroundings by surprise. Considered one of the most important figures in the economic and social sector of our country, it was to be expected that numerous well-known faces would come to say their final goodbyes accompanied by his widow, Nuria González. Not so his older children, with whom the shipowner had had a confrontation in recent years and whom he had banned from his funeral.
A situation that arose after five of the shipowner's eight children took him to court in 2021 to try to incapacitate him and leave their father out of the decisions of the companies he had created over the years, in addition to having access to the assets. and to the assets in the case of a ruling unfavorable to the businessman.
However, what they did not know was that long before all this took place, in 2018, Tapias' widow was being "warned" of what was happening through a series of anonymous letters that arrived at her home.
As Vanitatis reports, Nuria González would have been the recipient of these mysterious messages, without sender and handwritten, that arrived at her house. In these letters, she showed unconditional support for the businesswoman, which made him think that her sender could be an employee of her husband's business conglomerate.
A mysterious messenger who was aware of the movements that were taking place after the "retirement" of Fernando Fernández Tapias by his older children, and who wanted his widow to know that he had the support of the company's workers. "The truth will come out," said one of the messages.
Three years later, five of the shipowner's children appealed to the courts to try to incapacitate him and have greater decision-making power in the company. Fernando Jr., Borja and Íñigo (the result of his marriage to his first wife, Victoria Riva); united with their "right arms" and those most involved in the business conglomerate, Juan Carlos and Alejandra (born in his second marriage with Juana García-Courel), they opened a judicial process that would end up dynamiting the parent-child relationship forever.
The process was a surprise for the shipowner. Above all, on the part of his children Alejandra and Juan Carlos, who until now had remained uninvolved in the family war. Alejandra was her father's personal secretary, and Juan Carlos had shortly before been named president of the shipping company. In the case of the businessman's daughter, it was a complete surprise for the company's employees, because they knew that Tapias blindly trusted her daughter.
Finally, Tapias' children would obtain a partial incapacitation of the shipowner, who took everything he had to experience in court as a betrayal. However, the shipowner also played his cards: since 2017, she has been the representative of several of the businessman's companies; in addition to two others that he has managed for more than 15 years. In total, she manages a heritage that exceeds 120 million euros in assets.
