A new audio recording of Leire Díez points to the PSOE: "I am Cerdán's right-hand woman"

BarcelonaDid Leire Díez offer legal benefits in exchange for dirty laundry about Civil Guard investigators? And if so, was she acting on behalf of the PSOE? Whose orders was she following? Both she and the socialists deny That the journalist and former activist worked for the party, a new audio recording points in the opposite direction. According to the recording of a conversation she had with prosecutor Ignacio Stampa, which has been leaked to media outlets in recent hours such as The Country and The WorldDíez presented himself as "the person the PSOE has put in place" and, more specifically, as the "right-hand man" of Santos Cerdán, former number three in the party and now under investigation—and in pretrial detention—in the Koldo case.

"This is strictly confidential and it's something that stays here, but let's just say that I'm the person the PSOE has put in place to see what's behind all this," Díez said in the recorded meeting, which allegedly took place on May 7th and in which, in addition to the prosecutor, the company was also present. The audio has been leaked after... Stampa will testify before the judge that the considered plumber The socialists told her that she was following orders from the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, to "cleanse without limits." At one point in the recorded conversation, in fact, Stampa asks Díez if the Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, knows they are meeting, and she ends up telling him that "he will know," both he and "Álvaro's boss." When asked if she means the minister or the Prime Minister, she replies: "Everyone." According to the EFE news agency, the prosecutor has already handed this audio over to Madrid's Court of Instruction Number 9, where the former PSOE member is being investigated. Díez has maintained throughout that she was not acting on behalf of the PSOE and that what she was doing was journalistic work on the dirty war waged by the police and the judiciary against the socialists, investigations that she says she will publish in a book. However, at the meeting last May, an intervention by Pérez Dolset would contradict this version. He explains to Stampa that he has files proving spying on President Sánchez and that, when his wife, Begoña Gómez, was charged, Díez asked him for this evidence. "The president already said everything should be cleaned up," the businessman continues. And the former socialist activist agrees: "Clean it up," she says. Pérez Dolset adds the specifics again: "Clean it up, without limits. Police officers who falsify reports, out. Prosecutors who hide evidence, out. Those who fabricate cases, out. And the politicization of the judicial system..."

Feijóo: "Sánchez ran the dirty tricks"

The leader of the People's Party (PP), Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has not hesitated to attack Sánchez after the release of the new audio recording. In a message on social media, which includes several press headlines about Díez's statements, he asserts that the Spanish president "not only knew about it, but was the one running the PSOE's dirty tricks": "Blackmailing prosecutors, judges, and the UCO (Central Operative Unit of the Civil Guard) to cover up his corruption," he denounced.

Conversely, the PSOE spokesperson in Congress, Patxi López, stated in the halls of Congress that they are "very calm" after the release of the recording of Díez. "What we want, as I've always said, is to know the truth about all this, and we are very calm about this matter," he simply stated. When asked about the possibility of filing a lawsuit against the former member for remarks that could incriminate the party headquarters in Ferraz, López indicated that they have not considered it "yet."