The thread that connects the Leire Díez case with Santos Cerdán

Madrid"There is no element, of minimal consistency, that allows us to consider as a minimally feasible hypothesis that Koldo García had the status of undercover agent or provocateur, a supposed status in which he would have persisted for years, having established an intense relationship with Santos, undoubtedly long before the formation of the Progressive government and the negotiations with the nationalist political forces to which the investigated repeatedly refers as a driving force for his indictment." With this forcefulness, the investigating judge in the Cerdán case, Leopoldo Puente, defused this Monday one of the main insinuations of the defense strategy of the former number 3 of the PSOE: that Koldo García, the former advisor to the former, was in collusion with the Civil Guard.

"If no minimally serious element is perceived that allows us to conclude that the recordings could have been manipulated, altered or simulated by the person who obtained them and kept them in his possession, there was even less to attribute this same conduct to the police force," provisional for Cerdán. Puente thus responds to the argument that lawyer Benet Salellas made during the hearing where the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office's request to send the former secretary of the socialist organization to prison was debated. This is something that we will also try to prove," the lawyer maintained.

At least twice during the interrogation, in response to questions from his lawyer, Cerdán stated that Koldo had "a very good relationship with the Civil Guard." One of the names he refers to is Rubén Villalba, a member of the group Rubén Villalba is a reference to in the National Court. Cerdán says he knew him in Navarre because the former advisor to Ábalos had taken him to a meal with Huarte's PSOE group, along with other agents from the anti-terrorist group. "It all stems from a man who is publicly known to have been a collaborator with the Civil Guard, this case. 23 cell phones were found at his home," Salellas emphasized, casting doubt on the investigation. In this regard, he stressed that in a criminal investigation, material "produced" by members of the security forces "or by persons acting on their instructions" has no value or relevance, according to the jurisprudence of the European Court. Regarding the Central Operative Unit (UCO), They connect this case with Leire Díez, the former PSOE member was caught maneuvering against members of the force with the help of businessman Javier Pérez Dolset. Specifically, Leire Díez met with Rubén Villalba as part of her approach to those investigated in legal cases before the National Court. Leire Díez was caught with the following statement during a meeting with a businessman accused of hydrocarbon fraud: "We don't have the security forces and bodies of the State to extort the citizens of this country. What I don't want is for this man to make us all his own; he's become his executioner, his prisoners, and his jailers," she said, referring to the head of economic crime at the UCO (University of Cordoba). This account coincides with Cerdán's, who has met with Leire Díez on more than one occasion.