The Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard seized a laptop from Leire Díez which contained a central file containing “confidential information”, according to investigative sources told ABC. This device had access to a cloud inside, which … was managed by Javier Pérez Dolsetwith the documents that the former socialist activist had collected on judge Juan Carlos Peinado, also various prosecutors and leaders of the PP and PSOE.
This laptop will be one of the keys to the secret procedures carried out by the magistrate Santiago Pedraz at the National Court. However, the analysis of these documents will inevitably clash with the investigations opened before the courts of the Plaza de Castilla.
Precisely, these two procedures are ordered by agents of the UCO. As ABC previously reported, investigators took his cell phone and several notebooks containing notes from Leire Díez’s house. They also seized her husband’s device. The laptop was not registered during this search. former socialist activist.
In this system there are many unknowns kept by the former director of Postal Philately. For months, he had been collecting documents containing sensitive information. Data now in the hands of UCO researchers.
These investigative sources explain to ABC that in this cloud there is data on the case of Juan Carlos Peinado with Nervis Villalobos. This former Venezuelan minister accused the Congress magistrate of having violated his rights since he spent five years with his bank accounts blocked and thirteen months in temporary prison.
Villalobos was one of the participants in the “Operation Catalonia” commission of inquiry. Leire Díez has already admitted to having had meetings with some of his protagonists and to having supervised these meetings in the preparation of a book as an investigative journalist.
The cloud
The existence of this cloud of his movements was already controversial. Leire Díez herself said she suffered a hack in front of the National Police, according to sources close to ABC. Its content had different political aspects.
And these files were administered and managed by Javier Pérez Dolset. Leire Díez could only view them and, occasionally, download a certain type of document. Inside there were cases and news from prosecutors, judges and politicians. In addition, as reported by ‘El Independiente’, there was the file of Aznalcóllar case which affected Vicente Fernández.
Not only was there relevant data on popular leaders, but also on PSOE members like Óscar López and Antonio Hernando, as this outlet reported. The connection between the two is linked to the search for information about the sauna activity of Pedro Sánchez’s father-in-law.
As Leire Díez herself explained, these two senior socialist officials mobilized to obtain data on Commissioner Villarejo’s investigation into Sabiniano Gómez. Over the years, both regained power within the PSOE after expressing their disagreements with Pedro Sánchez.
Despite the enormous amount of information he kept on his laptop, there are doubts about its inclusion in the summary of the case, since it has no relation to the investigation carried out by Judge Santiago Pedraz of the National Court. The subject of this procedure is public procurement for the period between 2021 and 2023.
Leire’s information could be excluded from the UCO offices or contribute to the trial led by Judge Zamarriego in Plaza Castilla
However, it is assumed that a good part of this data will be erased from the documents that will be presented to the court. However, it remains to be seen whether the judge Arturo Zamarriegowho is leading the trial against Leire Díez in Plaza Castilla, requests this data for the investigations he orders. It should be noted that in both cases the Civil Guard is the protagonist.
The UCO’s work is currently focused on preparing the main report of the case since they had to expressly exploit Operation Leire. Fear of a possible leak Vicente Fernández This motivated the acceleration of investigations which were in the hands of very few people and the anti-corruption prosecution.
The embryo of these was the registration of the head office of Servinabar and telephone analysis Joseba Antxón Alonso. This circumstance revealed the alleged management conspiracy to collect commissions for public procurement.
After the three detainees were brought to justice, the National Court released them all with precautionary measures. More than a dozen people are also being investigated as part of the proceedings. The names of most of them have not been revealed, but the points recorded by the UCO have been revealed.
Martínez Mediations
One of the people appearing in the trial is the former president of the state-owned company Enusa. José Vicente Berlanga. A history of Valencian socialism which is considered one of the trusted men of José Luis Ábalos.
As soon as the complaint became known, the PSPV suspended his membership. Different companies also appear in the file as legal entities. And, according to the scant information revealed, several companies are under investigation as conduits of the payments he received. Martínez Mediations.
Investigators suspect that Leire Díez’s car was one of the rewards for mediation in public companies
Precisely following the money trail is one of the objectives of the investigations carried out by the Civil Guard. The agents made an initial estimate that the three detainees could have taken an amount of approximately 700,000 euros by commissions to unite businesses with public administrations.
One of the main lines of investigation is that the three men had agreed behind the scenes to distribute this money through the purchase of houses or other property. For this reason, the Skoda car that Leire Díez was driving is another subject of the procedure. And this vehicle was acquired through the company Mediaciones Martínez and its use and enjoyment belonged to the former socialist activist.
This number is not chosen at random. It would have been estimated on the basis of conversations seized by UCO troops. From now on, the analysis of the bank accounts and assets of the three detainees will provide answers to these questions.