The PSOE forwards the documentation provided by Leire Díez to the Prosecutor's Office

Madrid24 hours after Leire Díez appeared in Ferraz, the PSOE announced this Wednesday night that it will take the case to the Prosecutor's Office. pendrive –without opening it—with documentation that the former socialist activist has been collecting on court cases and alleged irregular police practices. The move comes after an unusual appearance this morning, but especially after a long interview on the program Everything is a lie Díez has acknowledged that he handed over a wealth of information about investigations in which the PSOE is a party and others that are not. In other words, whether Díez worked for the PSOE or not, the party had the information and had no choice but to send it to the courts. "We want the truth to be known," argued spokesperson Esther Peña in an interview on RNE.

Díez, at the center of the controversy over digging up dirt on prosecutors and senior officials of the Civil Guard's Central Operational Unit (UCO), broke his silence with a public statement that ended absurdly. Finally, businessman Víctor de Aldama—indicted in a hydrocarbons scheme in the National Court and in the Koldo case—burst in and confronted Díez and businessman Javier Pérez Dolset, who had accompanied him. "She's a scoundrel," Aldama denounced, after the journalist claimed that her investigation into UCO agents was investigative journalism. "I'm not a plumber, nor a coward. I don't do my work on behalf of anyone," she asserted. Hours later, she confirmed that she had met once with the number three in the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party), Santos Cerdán, the day after businessman Javier Pérez Dolset admitted that they had also met more than once.

"This is Aldama, isn't it?" the journalists asked as Díez said goodbye. Indeed, the businessman approached the former Socialist militant to criticize his speech, and she avoided interacting with him. As he left, Aldama followed him, and cameras and reporters stood up to record the events. Pérez Dolset pushed Aldama, and there were tense moments due to the possibility that the confrontation could escalate and Aldama could lunge at them. Between hotel workers, the security guards, the crowd, and Pérez Dolset, they were able to detain him. Leire Díez is considering filing a complaint against him for threats following this incident.

Enemies in court

Why has the businessman appeared and confronted Díez? According to some reports, the former Socialist Party member said in a meeting with a Civil Guard member charged in the Koldo case that it was necessary for Aldama "to stop stretching the truth" and that "certain information cannot be released." In recent months, he was the one who has been leaking allegations of corruption involving the number three in the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party), Santos Cerdán, and other Spanish government officials, although nothing has been confirmed or proven so far.

"Everything is a lie and one paripe. "He says he's conducting investigative work, yet he threatens a lieutenant colonel and a civilian like me. You're journalists; I don't think you're going to say, 'I hope a Civil Guard is dead,' or that 'Aldama must be silenced at all costs,'" Aldama denounced when the media questioned him about his appearance. "This woman doesn't know what she did coming here. You'll see what will happen. And the Prime Minister and Mr. Santos Cerdán will also see it," Aldama warned as he left. "We hope for the good of Spain that this is the case [for the end of Sánchez's government]. Let's see if Mr. Feijóo finally does what he must do and expels this government and puts an end to the current chaos," he added. "There is a dirty war against the Spanish government. What they are doing is worthy of imprisonment," reacted Minister Óscar López.

The Leire Díez case has revolutionized Spanish politics this past week and a half, and on Sunday the PP has called a rally in Madrid to protest against the "mafia" - as the Spanish government describes it - and against the "hood", personified by Pedro Sánchez. The Conservative Party has also filed a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office against Díez, businessman Javier Pérez Dolset, and lawyer Jacobo Teijelo, in whose office the controversial meeting with businessman Alejandro Hamlyn took place, from whom the two parties sought compromising information about investigators. At that meeting, Díez recommended that Hamlyn hire Teijelo as her lawyer and leave José Antonio Choclán, who is also Aldama's lawyer, in charge. Díez and his team suspect that Choclán leaked the audio in The Confidential and they claim they were illegally recorded.

Díez's suspicions

After the meeting was made public, Díez clarified that it lasted longer than the 53 minutes that have been disclosed and explained its context: "My participation was intended to confirm information I had received regarding the relationship between those investigated in the case and certain public servants." That is, she insinuated that there were members or former members of the UCO with ties to accused hydrocarbon sector businessmen. Regarding the offer to the accused Hamlyn of judicial benefits in exchange for information about the investigators, she clarified that "any relationship with the Prosecutor's Office would be the responsibility of the lawyers" and asserted that she did not "compromise the behavior of any public servant, neither prosecutors nor anyone else."

Díez explained that she has been investigating allegedly irregular practices in the courts for some time: from Operation Catalunya, the "unusual investigations against Podemos," and the Kitchen case related to former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo, to the latest scandals surrounding the PSOE. "I'm not going to hide the fact that I've put enthusiasm into these," the journalist added. Beyond attributes such as plumber, which he denies, Díez's explanations reveal a double game between the book he claims to be writing and "helping" victims of the dirty war. Meanwhile, the PSOE reacts in tandem with what's coming out of the sewers, and Sánchez remains silent.