The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office sees evidence to indict the PSOE in the Leire case, but believes it is still "premature"

MadridThe Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office believes there are grounds to charge the PSOE within the framework of the Leire case at the National Court, but considers that it is still “premature” to take this step. It is the public prosecutor's response to the request made by the PP –which leads the popular accusations– two days ago, the day after the call for the elections on November 29. The prosecutor argues that first, pending proceedings must be carried out, such as, for example, the statement as an investigated person by Santos Cerdán, former number three of the PSOE. The popular party wanted Pedro Sánchez's party to be investigated for the crimes of illegal financing, bribery, influence peddling, money laundering, and embezzlement.

This movement has coincided with the statement at the National Court by Beatriz Biedma, the judge who investigated and sent Pedro Sánchez's brother to trial. She has done so as an injured party after reporting that she felt “affected” by an alleged campaign to “publicly and professionally discredit her”. Here, the alleged role played by the Los Rochos drug trafficking clan is also under suspicion. Legal sources recount to ARA that, before the judge, Beatriz Biedma confirmed that she detected that she was being followed, although she does not know who was behind it.

"I know they have asked about me. I arrived at school to pick up my daughter and they told me: "Your brother was just here and asked what time you arrive". And I don't have a brother. It worried me a lot. Or I have been in a place I frequent every day and they have told me: "Your secretary came and asked us if you are also coming tomorrow at this time". And I don't have a secretary", she has related, as ARA has learned. However, she has stated that she does not know Leire Díez at all, that she has "never" spoken to her and that the person known as the plumber of the PSOE has “never” contacted her either by email or by phone.

Secondly, she narrated that at the beginning of 2025, a few months after the indictment of Sánchez's brother, a lawyer told her that Luis Sáenz de Tejada –a former judge who was expelled from the judiciary after a conviction for gender-based violence– had contacted Cinthia Rocho, who is the leader of the Los Rochos clan. Beatriz Biedma was the judge who sent her father and brother to prison. Luis Sáenz de Tejada shared a WhatsApp group, among others, with Leire Díez and instigated complaints and recusals to try to remove the judge from David Sánchez's case. That is why the Civil Guard links him to what are known as the sewers of the PSOE, although he is not formally under investigation.

"Did you feel threatened? Have you felt fear?", a lawyer asked Beatriz Biedma. "Well, the truth is yes," she replied. And she recalled that she has "no protection" and is exposed: "Doing something to me is very easy. I always arrive at the same time, enter through the same place, park in the same place. Anyone who wanted to do something to me would find it very easy." Mind you, she made it clear that she did not change any resolution in the case of the Spanish president's brother as a result of these alleged maneuvers.

24 hours ago, a report by the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard contained the testimony, precisely, of Cinthia Rocho. She recounted a phone call with Luis Sáenz de Tejada in which he had told her that Beatriz Biedma was a "fucking pain in the ass" and that "she had to be eliminated." She understood that "they wanted to cause her physical harm." Thirdly, Beatriz Biedma explained that another lawyer told her that he had "sensitive information about the sewers” and explained to her that he had seen a video of her “having breakfast in a cafeteria” and a video of her daughters in a park.

Sánchez's brother appeals his conviction

In parallel, Pedro Sánchez's brother has filed an appeal with the High Court of Justice of Extremadura against the ruling that sentenced him to nine years of disqualification. David Sánchez argues that he was investigated because of his "family book" and the "political status of his brother." The document, to which ARA has had access, laments that "the bait of a non-existent labor absenteeism" gave rise to a "prospective investigation." He also believes that the popular accusations, which included the PP, Vox, Manos Limpias, Hazte Oír, and Iustitia Europa, had "ethereal goals that artificially mask other interests."