The agents of the Central Operational Unit (COU) of the Civil Guard put on their suits to advance the investigation into the Leire Díez affair. On the table, they have a dozen electronic devices seized from … the three detainees and their closest environment which are currently being analyzed at bunker created like a bubble to avoid leaks of procedures which will remain secret.
The express exploitation of the prosecution of the former socialist activist also caused agents to work tirelessly to prevent evidence from being destroyed or tampered with. The 72 hours of exhaustion of the detention period of the three detainees was intended to bring together the maximum number of clues and collect the appropriate files from the administrations concerned.
Once the first phase has been completed, the decisive step now comes into play: that of confirming the burden of proof of the elements at their disposal. The magistrate Santiago Pedraz extended the secrecy of the debates by one month to facilitate the work of Civil Guard agents and allow them to complete their reports without pressure.
Agents suspect they have a complex investigation on their hands that could affect higher-level officials as well as state-owned companies.
Within the UCO, this matter is being handled in the greatest secrecy. The headquarters of the men and women of Antonio Balas It has become a real bunker again. A bubble against leaks since they do not admit their steps and movements even to their own colleagues.
This atmosphere is reminiscent of the moments preceding the exploitation of the Koldo affair wave hydrocarbon plot. Agents suspect they have a complex investigation on their hands that could affect higher-level officials as well as state-owned companies.
Leire Díez’s arrest came as a surprise to many, but there is still much to be done. “We will be even more surprised by what is yet to come,” sources in the file venture to predict to ABC. For this, this will be the key mobile device analysis entered.
Servinabar owner Joseba Antxon Alonso
The agents have in their hands nearly a dozen of these materials ranging from phones and even computers that they collected in the recordings they made. A good part of them have information that has nothing to do with the case being investigated, as sources close to Leire Díez explain.
In the same way, the civil guards even took the phone of the husband of the former socialist activist. The accounts of Leire Díez’s family are blocked. Even his daughter, according to what these sources revealed to Telecinco.
Vicente Fernández and his phone
However, sources consulted by this media maintain that the main source of evidence for UCO investigators is found in the phone of Vicente Fernández. Agents suspect that the former SEPI president’s device can provide them with great information about movements occurring in the key years of 2021 to 2023.
The documents collected from the various public companies will be used to confirm the indications of those responsible. Both from Mercasa, Correos and SEPIDE. In the same way, they also have data collected in Forestalia.
Former SEPI President Vicente Fernández
According to ABC, one of the titles of one of the diaries seized from Leire Díez was “Cantabria 2025”. Some manuscripts contain information on meetings that the former socialist activist held with businessmen from the hydrocarbon sector as well as data from current minister Óscar López and Antonio Hernando, according to sources in the file.
In the house in Leganés a notebook was found containing notes on Mediaciones Martínez SLone of the companies that Civil Guard investigators are focusing on. The rest of the information seized has nothing to do with the case and are manuscripts that Leire Díez had recently collected.
The half-dozen notebooks seized contain data on the former socialist activist’s meetings with businessmen linked to the hydrocarbon plots. Many of them are already known and published. It also contains the transcript of some of these meetings. “They have absolutely nothing on the subject of the investigations,” say those around Leire Díez.
The origin
UCO agents suspect that the plot rigged five public contracts worth a total of 132.9 million euros. Although it is currently unclear how much money was made from the bribes, it has emerged that these allegedly illegal commissions were routed through a company called Martínez Mediations.
The SEPI rescue of Tubos Reunidos, the Basque group dedicated to the manufacture of steel tubes, of 112.8 million euros is another pending subject. Other contracts examined concern the award of Walk to the company Servinabar (of which Santos Cerdán and Antxon Alonso are said to be associated); and a third concerned the award of a public contract from Enusa (National Uranium Company) to Residuos de Melilla (Remesa). It is worth remembering that Díez herself worked as communications director at Enusa between 2018 and 2021.
Another of the entities that are in the crosshairs of investigators, the investigations being carried out by the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard, is the Business Park of the Principality of Asturias (PEPA)who allegedly awarded allegedly fake compensation to the demolition company Erri Berri. And the fifth of the allegedly rigged cases concerns Forestalia Arapallet, which allegedly received help from Sepides, the State Corporation for Industrial Promotion and Business Development.
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