The case of the “PSOE sewers” tightens the judicial siege against Pedro Sánchez’s party and threatens to become a true “via crucis” for the Government. The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office is already questioning certain excerpts of the story offered by Ferraz in the investigation with which he tries to refute the hypothesis that the training financed the structure of the alleged criminal organization that acted to “protect” him and “as an umbrella” against the judicial cases that affect him. So much so that the doubts of the Public Ministry have led the judge of the National Court Santiago Pedraz to order last week the analysis of 82 bank accounts, six of them belonging to the PSOE, of 12 entities to follow the trail of Ferraz’s alleged payments.
In the latest report, to which LA RAZÓN had access, Anticorruption places two contradictory versions face to face regarding the hiring (or not) of the lawyer Jacobo Teijelo, the defense lawyer of the former Secretary of Organization of the PSOE Santos Cerdán. The Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard detailed that Ferraz had paid the lawyer at least 125,000 euros from November 2024 to June of the following year, coinciding with the indictment of the former socialist “number three.” And although Teijelo himself acknowledged in court that he billed services to the PSOE, the party maintains a diametrically opposite version.
In the response that Ferraz sent to the court, he assures that he has “never” hired Teijelo and that he has not “performed any professional advisory work” for the party either. But among everything, there are in the record some commission notes for “advisory” signed by the party manager – her statement is indicated as being investigated on September 9 -, six invoices issued by the lawyer, three payments and a signature that arrived months after the date of the contract.
The Public Ministry suspects that these payments could be the “vehicle” for the payment of another 4,000 euros per month to the former socialist militant Leire Díez, which had already been paid previously by the party’s Organization Secretariat for the “development of the actions that fall within the essential core of the facts investigated in these actions.” Although it has not been proven that Teijelo issued payments to Leire, it is clear that he received payment from the PSOE for, as detailed by the Prosecutor’s Office, “services that he did not provide and for which he had not been hired”, that he issued “up to three invoices addressed to the party, doing so at the request of Leire”, and that “he sent proof of his bank payment to the UCO”.
The Prosecutor’s Office details that there is a conversation in which the lawyer sent Díez a professional commission note in which the PSOE (represented by the manager) and, as lawyer, Teijelo, appear as participants, as client. He also explains that the former socialist militant would have sent this order note to Cerdán minutes later, telling him: “I need you to sign this for me to send me the invoice. I have the lawyer for the nervous guy (…) because I need to pay Jacobo (Teijelo) and for him to pay him as we said. Two hours later, says the Public Ministry, Díez sent the file signed by the party manager to the lawyer.
As a result of the intervention of these conversations, the investigators maintain that the processing of these payments was carried out through Díez with “the participation and connivance of Santos Cerdán” and through “mendacious billing.” For the UCO, Teijelo would have participated “as a qualified advisor on legal matters”, providing the alleged criminal organization with “documents of a legal nature that were part of judicial cases in which he carried out his professional work.” All relating to procedures in which alleged tax fraud by companies in the hydrocarbon sector was investigated. And in particular, in relation to the criminal case (Gaslow) in which his client, Captain of the Civil Guard Juan Sánchez Yepes, is being investigated.
In any case, all these contradictions between Ferraz and the lawyer who once was “Sanchez’s man” justify for Anti-Corruption the need to investigate the money trail. The findings could even open the door to a possible accusation of the PSOE in the investigations.