The former number 2 of Fernández Díaz admits in an audio that the Trias report "was totally false"
The report was not sent to the UDEF and was directly leaked with the objective of generating "noise"
BarcelonaNew revelations from the summary of the Leire Díaz case, the alleged plumber of the PSOE. In this case, about one of the bloodiest affairs of the dirty war against independence during the sovereignty process. The summary of the Leire Díez case includes the audio of a conversation with the former PSOE militant and former number two of minister Jorge Fernández Díaz, Francisco Martínez, where he admits that the report stating that the then mayor of Barcelona Xavier Trias had a bank account in Switzerland "was all false" and that the former Minister of the Interior, Jorge Fernández Díaz, was the one who leaked it to media outlets close to the PP. Martínez affirms that the person in charge of drafting the report "invented it all," and describes a system of creating and leaking dossiers against political rivals.
The recording, incorporated into the summary being investigated by the National High Court judge Santiago Pedraz, includes a conversation held in July 2024. Martínez explains that the report on Trias came from a police collaborator who claimed to have privileged access to banking information. “It is supposed to be a report made by a guy who had been a Police collaborator for years and who had access to a lot of information,” Martínez says in the audio, before adding, however, that “he invented it all”.
According to the audio, which has been advanced by eldiario.es and to which ARA has had access, Martínez himself points out that this supposed "intelligence report" did not end up in the hands of the UDEF (Economic and Fiscal Crimes Unit) of the National Police for them to sign it, but was leaked directly to El Mundo with the aim of generating "noise" and consequently destabilizing the independence movement.
The former Secretary of State points to Fernández Díaz as responsible for the leaks and explains payments to police collaborators who prepared these reports. He maintains that they were paid just over 5,000 euros to prepare this type of file, but also that some were paid "for life".
A bank account with 12.9 million euros
In October 2014, El Mundo published that Trias had an account at the Swiss bank UBS with a balance of 12.9 million euros. The former mayor denied the information within 24 hours with a negative certification from the banking institution. Trias filed a lawsuit against Fernández Díaz for a crime of violation of secrets, but the Supreme Court dismissed it, even though there was no evidence to certify it, and rejected the case.
The audio is part of the material incorporated into the Leire Díez case, which investigates the actions and contacts maintained by the former socialist militant to try to torpedo judicial proceedings. In the conversation, Martínez conveys his willingness to collaborate with Díez to try to reduce the sentence requested he faces in the Kitchen case.
