Santos Cerdán ordered his PSOE team to authorize all trips requested by Leire Díez

MadridA new report from the Central Operative Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard, which ARA has accessed, supports the alleged leadership role that Santos Cerdán would have exercised in the Leire Díez case. The National Court is investigating an alleged "criminal structure" to "obstruct" judicial proceedings. The document, 107 pages long, reinforces the evidence gathered so far and, among other things, includes a report on the "management of travel expenses" related to Santos Cerdán and other members of his team in 2024 and 2025, which was prepared by the PSOE and handed over to the UCO three weeks ago. "He gave verbal instructions to his support staff to authorize any trip requested by Leire Díez in such a way that she personally communicated with the Secretariat staff to request trips," states the report prepared by Santiago Llorente, coordinator of the party's management.

The UCO also provides emails from the travel agency that works for the socialists, which attest to the requests made by a PSOE employee to purchase flights for Leire Díez. "It is a direct "order" from the Organization Secretary. I don't know anything else... Please, issue it when you have the authorization," said Covadonga San Pedro Pascual, who worked at Ferraz. The PSOE also provided details of the trips it paid for the investigated individuals: seven flights for Leire are listed – from Madrid to Bilbao, from Santander to Madrid, and from Santander to Jerez de la Frontera – and a round-trip train journey she took with businessman Javier Pérez Dolset from Madrid to Zaragoza.

Throughout 2025, Jacobo Teijelo – one of Santos Cerdán's current lawyers – who is also indicted and "will have to testify on June 25", according to the UCO, would have received 125,000 euros from the PSOE in three invoices. The contract was formalized by Ana María Fuentes, the party's manager, who is being investigated for document forgery, but the Civil Guard emphasizes that the "initiative" to hire the lawyer "would have originated" from the then number 3 of the party, Santos Cerdán: "The supervision and control of the services actually provided were directly assumed by the person who made the request, Mr. Santos Cerdán", admitted the PSOE itself. The same scheme was reproduced with the invoice for 27,225 euros that Ismael Oliver channeled and the four invoices for 7,500 euros with Zaño, Gaspar Zarrías' company. Jacobo Teijelo provided two more invoices – for 26,500 euros each – which are not recorded in the PSOE's accounts. Regarding this, the party denies that these payments were made, as they do not appear in the accounts and Cerdán had already left the organization.

. The PP has not found the explanations convincing and has asked Sánchez to call early elections: "He should accept reality, they have discovered him" –Regarding the payments for trips ordered by Santos Cerdán, Torró recalled that it was part of the management scope of the organization secretariat. "I didn't need anyone's authorization," Torró remarked, emphasizing that justice will have to determine if illicit behavior was hidden behind these payments. In any case, he noted that there are no direct contracts between the PSOE and Leire Díez, but rather the contractual relationship is formal legal advice or consulting contracts. The PSOE distances itself from what was done behind these contract items: it defends that the manager, Ana Fuentes, who is implicated in the proceedings, acted correctly and attributes, if applicable, all responsibility to Cerdán.

"I'm worth more for what I don't say than for what I say"reports Núria Orriols Guiu–. The PP has not accepted the explanations and has asked Sánchez to call early elections: "Let him accept reality, they've been discovered" –reports Andrea Zamorano."I'm worth more for what I keep quiet than for what I say"

Just this morning, El Correo publishes a brief interview with Leire Díez. "I know much more than what appears in the agendas they have managed to take away, I have always been worth more for what I keep quiet than for what I say," says the woman known as the PSOE's "plumber". She also talks about Sánchez: she denies ever having been with him. For his part, Santos Cerdán has once again defended his innocence when he went to sign at the Tafalla courts, as he does every two weeks: "I have done nothing illegal, nor is there any plot. I hope justice will clarify it soon."

In light of the new information in the Leire case, Esquerra, one of Sánchez's investiture partners, has urged the Spanish president to give explanations to "dispel doubts." In fact, the party's general secretary, Elisenda Alamany, has considered it "inadmissible" that Sánchez has not done so until now – he is scheduled to appear on June 24. "Less jewelry and more explanations," she added. For their part, Junts has raised the tone over the photos of the jewelry of former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and their spokesperson, Josep Rius, has assured that "the different cases affecting the PSOE [...], are much more than a simple offensive by the judicial right": "They are a moral sentence of a left that preaches certain values, but applies others." The spokesperson insisted on an early election because the Spanish executive "is no longer sustainable."