Leire Díez acknowledged to prosecutor Ignacio Stampa that “it was the right hand” of Santos Cerdán, when he was still serving as “number three” of the PSOE. This is evidenced by the audio of the conversation they had on April 30, secretly recorded by Stampa.
The recording has been contributed by the prosecutor to the case being pursued against the woman dubbed “plumber” in the Investigative Court number 9 of Madrid for influence peddling and bribery. But Díez also clarified that he was a “right hand who was never going to appear anywhere» from the then Secretary of Organization of Ferraz.
The now former socialist militant assured this member of the Public Prosecutor’s Office that “everyone has wanted to know” what she knew. Prosecutor Stampa asked him what the reason was behind it and his interlocutor simply stated that it was because “everyone is restless”.
As she herself is heard saying in the audio, Díez was “the person who put the PSOE to know what’s behind all this.”
She also pointed out that the one who was especially concerned about the information she had was Dolores Delgadoin relation to when he was Attorney General of the State and who – according to Díez and Stampa – encouraged the prosecutor to be removed from the “Villarejo case”, when he was on secondment and, therefore, without a permanent position in Anti-Corruption.
«Evidently, people like Lola have to be restless, of course, for what was done to you», Díez specifically told him.
There are several mentions of Delgado throughout the more than three hours of conversation.
Díez stated that, when the former minister had just been appointed head of Justice, they asked him to go see her and she offered to be your Communications Director. “They call you and tell you we are going to make you director of communications for a minister and you say ‘joe, that’s cool’, you rise.”
But, finally, he said, when he went to talk to her about the appointment, “he didn’t like anything he saw there, they were sensations” and he discarded it.
Another of those present at the meeting, Javier Pérez Dolset, made harsh accusations against former judge Baltasar Garzónwho is the partner of the current prosecutor of the Democratic Memory Chamber, and linked him to Stampa’s departure from the “Tandem case.”
Díez did the same and pointed out that Garzón “I had a hell of a business” with former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo.
According to her, it was then that she understood “why what happened” happened to Stampa.
Dolset, for his part, pointed out that the prosecutor “was fired” from Anti-Corruption (in October 2020) for “approaching the files (Villarjo audios)” and having shown his intention to investigate them. Díez added, in this regard: “You killed the goose that laid the golden eggs”.
As for Villarejo, both asserted that they knew that Pedro Sánchez, when he became general secretary of the Socialist Party, this police command placed “microphones” on him both in “his wife’s saunas” as in “your home.”
Ferraz’s supposed sewers literally conveyed to Stampa that the President of the Government wanted to know who had the documents about the businesses of his father-in-law, Sabiniano Gómez. Dolset, however, at another point in the recording, clarified that no one knows where they are.