The Central Operative Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard warns that the PSOE may have used “interposed” companies to pay Leire Díez coinciding with her ‘plumbing’ work for the party and that they are being investigated by the National Court.
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In a new report, accessed by La Vanguardia, the investigators request Judge Santiago Pedraz to expand the accounts to be analyzed linked to the party after detecting that there are payments coming from the party to people linked to Díez that are not from the six operating accounts of the party.
The agents suspect that there may be other accounts through which payments have been made and that are not currently registered. Therefore, and to be able to outline the whole “banking operation,” the UCO asks Pedraz to expand the investigation.
The investigators have discovered that a payment made to a media outlet, Crónica Libre, of a deceased journalist closely related to Díez in the activity to destroy judicial processes affecting the party, did not come from any of the six operating accounts.
The PSOE paid this media 18,000 euros for a banner advertisement under the concept “Campaign Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party PSOE European Elections 2024.”
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The payment was made through a third company, Iki Group Communications,” located in Barcelona. “Regarding the account from which the party would have made the payments to Iki Group, it is currently unknown, as this detail could not be determined based on the documentation in the case,” the report explains.
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Thus, it highlights that six bank accounts identified as operating accounts were requested from the PSOE when the agents went to the party headquarters on Ferraz street by court order in May. The UCO points out that with the information obtained it is not possible to know if the invoices analyzed have been paid from those accounts “nor what the final destination of the funds is.”
On the other hand, the UCO has already verified that the payments made by the former vice president of the Andalusian Government Gaspar Zarrías to Leire Díez, through his company Zaño, actually originated from the PSOE.
“Although Leire would have received a remuneration of 4,000 euros (monthly), the total cost that this contract would have meant for Zaño had amounted to 7,505.17 euros. In this regard, it is especially significant that this last amount exactly matches the supposed amount paid by the party to Zarrías’s company,” the report states.
Furthermore, it warns of the “temporal proximity between the invoicing issued by Zaño to the PSOE and the salaries received by Díez within the framework of the employment relationship” with Gaspar Zarrías’s company, involved in the Andalusian ERE case. Likewise, it detects that the number of payments would be the same: four salaries in favor of Díez and four invoices from Zaño.
A similar operation was done with payments from the PSOE to the company Oliver Gruppe and to the law firm Estudio Jurídico I.Oliver & Partners, of lawyer Ismael Oliver, also investigated in the case and summoned to testify on September 9 along with the PSOE manager Ana María Fuentes. “As in the case of the company Zaño, two companies would have been interposed to channel funds to Leire originating from the party,” the report states. Specifically, the payments from the PSOE to these two companies amounted to 27,225 euros, the same amount that Oliver deposited to Díez.
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