The state's sewer war continues: Leire Díez files a complaint against prosecutor Grinda.
The former PSOE member claims that this prosecutor manipulated the case against Rosell and covered up other judicial irregularities.
MadridA new chapter in the dirty war surrounding Leire Díez, the former PSOE journalist caught digging up dirt on members of the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Civil Guard's Unit of the Civil Guard. According to ARA, she has filed a complaint with the State Attorney General's Office against Anti-Corruption Prosecutor José Grinda, revealing a feud with him that has been going on for the past two years. She accuses him of filing a false complaint against her last February and accuses him of repeated disclosure of secrets, threats, coercion, and bribery. Grinda is the prosecutor behind the investigations into the 3% case and the Palau case.
What is Grinda accused of?
Basically, Díez's story is that Grinda was part of the irregular maneuvers that took place within the police and judicial sewers during the PP governments. Specifically, he is accused of "manipulations" in the case that led to the imprisonment of former Barça president Sandro Rosell and also of covering up malpractice in the case in which the businessman is accused. Javier Pérez DolsetAs already explained, Díez, Pérez Dolset, and journalist Patrícia López lead a group, which would include Rosell and the Ciercos—who also consider themselves victims of former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo's maneuvers for the intervention of the Banca Privada de Andorra (BPA)—whose target is the keys.
The Rosell case
The complaint includes audio recordings—to which ARA has had access—in which Grinda and José Luis Pérez can be heard. This person provided information about the former Barça president and was used in the legal case that led to his imprisonment. In November 2013, he gave a statement to the then Chief Inspector of the National Police, Fernando Guerrero, who, three and a half years later, on May 23, 2017, when Rosell was arrested, called him to inform him that his efforts had been successful. Along the way, a first complaint was filed, but a second one was successful, as revealed by a conversation between Grinda and José Luis Pérez, which allegedly took place in May 2017. "Currently, we have a new proposal [for a complaint]," he tells him. In parallel, another audio recording from January 2014 reveals that former police commissioner José Manuel Villarejo monitored José Luis Pérez's witness.
The Pérez Dolset case
Grinda is also the prosecutor investigating the case in which Pérez Dolset is accused of the bankruptcy of his technology company, Zed Worldwide, and an alleged misappropriation of 100 million euros abroad. In fact, this June he requested his prosecution. This Andalusian businessman maintains that the case originated from a conspiracy between the Planet Groupa, with whom he had a conflict; a member of the Economic and Tax Crime Unit (UDEF), André Vega, and prosecutor Carlos Yáñez, who was leading the investigation with Grinda. Leire Díez's complaint, therefore, accuses Grinda of covering him up.
The clash with Grinda
Although Leire Díez is the one who presents the brief, in the chronology of events, the protagonists are Grinda and journalist Patrícia López. The introduction explains that Díez launched a media outlet called Crónica Libre in 2021, which was run by López and which published exclusives on court cases—many related to the Villarejo plot—and states that Grinda had been one of the main sources of information for a time. "His strategy of personal protection and defense has been to buy the media narrative in exchange for leaking confidential documents. While what he wanted was being written, he supplied papers from the police or the Prosecutor's Office, taking advantage of the entire press's desire to report on any relevant matter, which is our obligation as journalists."
They even had a WhatsApp group together. The clash between Patrícia López and Grinda arose when the journalist, she claims, discovered with the documentation she had obtained that the prosecutor had "manipulated" cases or covered up irregular practices, something that "sparked her anger," she says. The complaint includes some audio recordings of that confrontation. "Before saying that a procedure is manipulated or that I'm following the instructions of someone who may be committing a crime, we could consider it. When the basis is something I haven't told you, you have a problem. [...] You're putting things in my mouth that are lies and using private conversations," Grinda tells López. "Pepe, I understand my role as a journalist and I know what yours is, which is not to sit down with [Mauricio] Casals [owner of The reason, from the Planeta Group] because it gives you little things", she replies.
Leire Díez's alleged offer
This entire chronology of events is now revealed following the complaint Grinda filed last February against Leire Díez and Pérez Dolset. He accused them of bribery for allegedly having concocted an offer for Grinda: they promised a transfer to an attractive location abroad in exchange for deactivating several legal cases, such as the one affecting Dolset, the 3% case, the Pujol case, and the fall of the BPA, according to The ConfidentialA journalist allegedly presented this proposal to the prosecutor, and according to Grinda, he was an envoy of Leire Díez, something she vehemently denies. In the complaint, the Anti-Corruption prosecutor mentions an alleged dinner between Díez, Pérez Dolset, Rosell, and journalist Pere Rusiñol where this offer was allegedly "fine-tuned," but some of the people involved in the case consulted by ARA maintain that it never happened. Therefore, now Leire Díez (and, incidentally, Dolset and Patrícia López) is counterattacking.