More chaos in the state's sewer war: a judge is investigating Leire Díez and Pérez Dolset for alleged bribery.

MadridA Madrid judge, Arturo Zamarriego, corrected himself on Friday and agreed to incorporate two complaints from two Anti-Corruption prosecutors into a case he has open against former PSOE member Leire Díez. They are Ignacio Stampa and José Grinda, who maintain that the group formed mainly by Díez, businessman Javier Pérez Dolset, and journalist Patrícia López bribed them: they offered them benefits from the Spanish government in exchange for judicial favors and/or compromising information from Civil Guard investigators or other prosecutors to discredit them. Zamarriego already had proceedings open against Leire Díez following the publication of audio recordings in which he could be heard offering deals to defendants in exchange for information about Antonio Balas, for example, who is the head of the UCO investigating the Cerdán case.

The judge initially considered that the facts were unrelated to what Stampa and Grinda reported, but now agrees to merge everything, adding businessman Pérez Dolset and journalist Pere Rusiñol as suspects. They are summoned to testify on November 11 - according to the publication The Confidential– and both prosecutors as well, on November 5, but in their case as injured parties. This is a new chapter in the legal war between these protagonists.

ARA reported a few days ago that Leire Díez filed a complaint against prosecutor Grinda for false accusations—precisely for the events that Judge Zamarriego now agrees to investigate—and Pérez Dolset also filed a complaint in early September against prosecutor Stampa for several crimes. This Andalusian businessman, who is being prosecuted in the National Court for the bankruptcy of his company, believes the case against him has an illegal origin and is the fruit of the PP's sewers. In recent years, he has teamed up with other victims of the dirty war, such as Operation Catalunya, such as former Barça president Sandro Rosell and the former owners of Banca Privada de Andorra, the Cierco brothers.