Prosecutor Stampa assures that Leire Díez introduced herself as an emissary of the PSOE | Spain | EUROtoday

The head of the Investigative Court quantity 9 of Madrid, Arturo Zamarriego, who’s accountable for the case Leire Díez ―which investigates whether or not the previous PSOE militant led a “criminal plan” to “discredit” the management of the Civil Guard and the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office with the purpose of “annulling” investigations that affected “politicians and businessmen”― This Wednesday she heard the model of prosecutors José Grinda and Ignacio Stampa who’ve ratified the accusation in opposition to her.

Stampa has indicated that within the assembly she recorded on May 7 with Díez there have been 12 mentions of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and that, in accordance with her, he was “very concerned” about understanding who dealt with the details about his father-in-law’s saunas. Stampa appeared at half previous one within the afternoon, after a protracted wait on the door of the Court, escorted by two cops as a result of he was guarding delicate materials that he contributed to the case. According to sources current within the assertion, he has confirmed all of the factors that the Prosecutor’s Office had already reported: that Leire Díez along with businessman Javier Pérez Dolset met with him on behalf of “the PSOE”; that each assured that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, was conscious of the exercise that each had carried out; and that they requested him for data from his colleagues and managers within the Public Ministry.

The prosecutor, presently stationed in Madrid, has been testifying for almost two hours and has indicated that the development businessman Luis del Rivero organized a gathering that he thought Santos Cerdán would attend – presently in jail accused of bribery, affect peddling and prison group within the koldo case―. This name didn’t shock him as a result of Del Rivero had already made two earlier ones with individuals who needed to method him after the publication of the e book through which he explains why he misplaced his place in Anticorruption: one with the chief of Vox Santiago Abascal, who apologized for having denounced him prior to now, and one other with the previous Madrid president Esperanza Aguirre.

Cerdán didn’t seem that day and, in his place, Leire Díez did together with Javier Pérez-Dolset. Both knowledgeable him, in accordance with their story, that they had been despatched by the PSOE as a result of Pedro Sánchez had ordered “cleaning without limits” after the accusation of his spouse, Begoña Gómez, in April 2024. They supposed to acquire details about who managed the recordings of the sauna of Begoña Gómez’s father, amongst different points. A query that they believed Stampa might reply as a result of he had been prosecutor within the case of Commissioner José Manuel Villarejo who, allegedly, had these audios. They talked about Sánchez, as he advised the Justice of the Peace, a dozen instances. Nine of them, Dolset and three, Leire Díez.

Stampa has supplied the recording that helps his story, however the choose has determined to not hand it over to the events but and that the three investigated (Díez, Dolset and a journalist) take heed to it first on the day they’re summoned to testify subsequent week. Judge Zamarriego, who does have the audio of a 3 and a half hour dialog in his possession, requested him why it seems lower off, and the prosecutor has justified that it was solely a second when he went to the toilet. He has additionally supplied a notarized doc about that audio and one other that he collected later a few name from Leire Díez.

The prosecutor has stated that the previous socialist militant at no time made reference to a journalistic investigation, which is how she has been justifying her conferences all this time, and that, actually, she advised him that she had not labored as an editor for years. Stampa has acknowledged that he discovered it “extremely serious” that the Executive was making an attempt to “destroy” one other department of the State by judicial officers.

Grinda confirms blackmail

Grinda was the primary to testify, after half previous twelve within the morning. The Anti-Corruption prosecutor, recognized for main issues similar to the three% (on the alleged assortment of unlawful commissions within the Generalitat), has corroborated what was already acknowledged within the Prosecutor’s grievance: that on February 27 of this yr a journalist he knew gave him a paper through which he was provided a place overseas in trade for archiving among the investigations he’s finishing up and giving delicate details about his boss, the Chamber prosecutor Alejandro Luzón. According to what he advised for an hour and a half, the journalist Pere Rusiñol advised him that behind that provide was a sure Leire, with which he inferred that it was Leire Díez primarily based on the information and images leaving Ferraz that had been revealed months in the past calling her the “PSOE plumber.” Grinda has verbalized that she believed she was “defenestrated,” however that being conscious of the seriousness of the provide, she went that very same day to inform her boss Luzón, in accordance with sources current within the assertion.

The Anti-Corruption prosecutor has defined that Rusiñol was his good friend, which is why he agreed to fulfill him in a cafeteria in Madrid and has assumed that he didn’t know the content material of that folio with which they supposedly supposed to blackmail him as a result of, if not, he stated, he would have directed the grievance in opposition to the informant and he didn’t achieve this.

For its half, Rusiñol’s protection has supplied a flash drive to the case with WhatsApp that he crossed paths with the prosecutor days later and that, in accordance with them, he didn’t method Grinda because the issuer of any blackmail, however as a journalist. He supposedly supposed to corroborate that the prosecutor had requested for assist from the previous president of the Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, and the lawyer normal of the State, Álvaro García Ortiz, to look within the investigative fee on the ‘operation Catalonia’ that was being held within the Congress of Deputies. According to this model, Grinda needed to defend himself from what some deputies had declared in opposition to him. The witness has confirmed that he did ask for this assist, however that Rusiñol didn’t meet with him for that goal and has agreed to additionally present his messages with the journalist.

The Public Ministry attributes to Leire Díez a criminal offense of bribery and one other of affect peddling for allegedly making an attempt to “discredit” members of the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard and the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office with the purpose of “squandering” or “annulling” ongoing instances. She has at all times defended that each one the conferences she held with prosecutors or defendants in different instances had been throughout the framework of her journalistic exercise to jot down a e book.

Next November 11 would be the flip of the defendants’ statements. The former socialist, the businessman Pérez Dolset and the journalist investigated for being the alleged sender of the message to Grinda will move by the court docket.

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