A new audio recording of Leire Díez points to the PSOE: "I am Cerdán's right-hand woman"
The former socialist activist said he was acting on behalf of the party in a meeting with prosecutor Stampa, who has accused him of bribery.
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.
