The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office wants to know if the meetings at the State Attorney General’s Office with Leire Díez, known as the PSOE’s “plumber,” are true. In a document submitted in the case investigating a plot to torpedo judicial cases affecting the Socialist Party or the President of the Government’s inner circle, prosecutors ask the investigating judge to request the visitor log at the Ministry’s headquarters on Fortuny street, between April 2024 and June 2025, for a series of people.
These are Leire Díez, the lawyers investigated in this plot Jacobo Teijelo and Ismael Oliver, the businessman, also investigated, Javier Pérez Dolset, and the lawyer of former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo, José García Cabrera.
This request comes after the analysis of Díez’s phone, seized in December by the Civil Guard’s Central Operative Unit (UCO), where she claims to maintain contacts and meetings at the Attorney General’s Office, then headed by Álvaro García Ortiz, who had to resign after his conviction for revealing secrets.
Among other things, she said she had spoken with the Attorney General’s Office to reach an agreement with Villarejo in exchange for him providing information about former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, against the PP, Podemos, and other matters. The case includes conversations with the former commissioner himself and his lawyer.
Prosecutors also ask Pedraz to request from the Attorney General’s Office the total number of complaints filed by former advisor Koldo García that had been received by said institution between January and June 2025 and the processing given to them. The request stems from conversations between Leire Díez and the lawyer of former advisor to former Minister of Transport José Luis Ábalos.
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Among the established plan, according to the investigation, was to file complaints against the UCO or Anti-Corruption to torpedo the case. Some of the complaints were directed against members of the unit for alleged leaks, the same reasons why the Directorate General of the Civil Guard initiated several disciplinary proceedings.
On the other hand, a series of testimonies are requested, including that of the president of the PSOE, Cristina Narbona. One of the UCO reports records a conversation between Díez and Narbona on April 24, 2024, the day Pedro Sánchez’s five-day reflection period began, after learning of his wife, Begoña Gómez’s, indictment. According to Judge Pedraz, that day was when the plot’s activities to halt judicial cases began.
According to the police report, Díez had a conversation with the deputy and president of the PSOE’s federal executive committee, in which the former spoke of “redirecting” attacks on the president, providing “qualified help,” and turning the matter “inside out.” In this same conversation, Narbona referred to having “told Santos about these matters the other day.”
Among the witnesses requested is businesswoman Carmen Pano, to whom the plot allegedly offered 50,000 to retract her statement and not say that she went to the PSOE headquarters on Ferraz street to deliver 90,000 euros.
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