Leire Díez's 'plot' maneuvered to pressure Marchena and be able to "successfully conclude" the amnesty

MadridThe supposed PSOE plot led by Santos Cerdán and Leire Díez also showed interest in the amnesty law. A 372-page Civil Guard report, which ARA has accessed, contains references to the law and the judicial persecution of independence supporters. Specifically, the Central Operative Unit (UCO) found a Word document prepared in November 2024 by the so-called PSOE plumber" who alluded directly to José Manuel Villarejo. It stated that the retired Spanish police commissioner, who these days is on trial for the Kitchen case, had the "proof that would demonstrate the corruption" of Manuel Marchena, who was the president of the trial of the Procés and was one of the judges who blocked the amnesty for Oriol Junqueras, Jordi Turull, Dolors Bassa, and Raül Romeva –Carles Puigdemont, Toni Comín, and Lluís Puig were also not granted amnesty by decision of Pablo Llarena–.

Another Word document, from January 2025, titled "State of Affairs" and also prepared by Leire Díez, detailed that in the summer of 2024 they had reached an "agreement" with Villarejo for him to provide them with "all the documentation that has not come to light". Among this documentation, there would be "audios and payments" that splash Marchena and the "role of the PP" in the patriotic police: "It involves the entire leadership of Rajoy's government and even Feijóo buying the 2012 Galician elections", he explained in writing. "The recordings pending delivery are truly explosive", he concluded. The Civil Guard also points out that, according to a document they found photographed, the retired commissioner and Leire Díez would have held three meetings in 2024 and, according to their Signal conversation, both would have maintained contact until the beginning of December of last year.

An agreement between the Prosecutor's Office and Villarejo

Going back, in January and February 2025, Leire Díez asked Antonio García Cabrera, Villarejo's lawyer, to call prosecutor César de Rivas, who is in charge of the Kitchen case, to explore a deal. But he didn't take well to it and the PSOE "plumber" had to resort to higher instances. Thus, she informed the lawyer that she would be received by the Attorney General of the State on February 19. However, last week, Antonio García Cabrera declared as a witness before the Civil Guard and denied ever meeting Álvaro García Ortiz.

The Civil Guard also found a document on Leire Díez's mobile phone detailing an alleged agreement that would serve for Villarejo to accept a prison sentence that did not involve being imprisoned and an economic fine that would not prevent him from continuing his life. The consideration was that he had to "collaborate" with the Prosecutor's Office to put an end to "flawed, manipulated, or commissioned causes" and to "purge" responsibilities. Despite this, Antonio García Cabrera said it was the "first time" he had seen the document and assured that he did not advise or participate in "any written or verbal agreement." He acknowledged meeting Leire Díez twice, but made it clear that what she told him seemed "very unbelievable and very fanciful."

"Accions Catalunya"

A third document titled "Accions Catalunya" outlined the roadmap: "One of the obstacles to being more agile in successfully completing the amnesty issue is the Supreme Court. [...] It can be said that we are advancing, I believe we are in the final sprint before the end of the stage so that the agreement with Villarejo and Paco Martínez is executed and we can obtain Villarejo's documentation, especially that which affects the Supreme Court, judges and prosecutors," it stated.

Likewise, he considered it a "priority objective" to close the Congressional investigation commission on Operation Catalonia in order to bring the conclusions to the Prosecutor's Office. He also pointed out that they would file a complaint against prosecutor José Grinda – who was in charge of the 3% case, the case against Carles Puigdemont for Aigües de Girona, or the case that led to the closure of Banca Privada d'Andorra – for the "irregularities" that had been uncovered and for a "pedophilia file" that affected him.

An agreement also with Francisco Martínez

The report also includes a conversation between Leire Díez and Francisco Martínez, who was number 2 in the Ministry of the Interior under Jorge Fernández Díaz as Secretary of State for Security. The PSOE "plumber" expressed her intention to reach an agreement with him: "You have to decide which is the right side of history. Help to untangle all this or let it get more complicated. You are a weak link in all this, and it's not fair because you had people above you." She put on the table an agreement with the Prosecutor's Office "so that things stay at the minimum possible." "We have to negotiate. We are starting a path that is not as easy as going to the sales. But it doesn't have any more problems either," she explained to him.