The judge of the National Court Santiago Pedraz has agreed to open a separate economic case to track the PSOE’s payments to the plumber Leire Díez and the underworld. The magistrate has ordered more than a dozen banking entities to provide economic information about the party and the investigated in the Leire case.
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In addition to the PSOE’s bank accounts, the instructor is interested in the accounts of the historic leader of Andalusian socialism Gaspar Zarrías, the lawyers Ismael Oliver and Jacobo Teijelo, and four companies linked to the plot –Zaño Consultores, Oliver Gruppe, Estudio Jurídico Oliver & Partners, Crónica Libre-. In total, Pedraz requests banking data from 81 accounts from January 1, 2024, to the present.
This is what the judge has agreed in an order, which EL MUNDO has had access to, to find out how the money from Ferraz moved and whether “various public crimes related to corruption” were committed. According to the magistrate, the plumber “would have promoted the payment charged to the PSOE party funds of the fees corresponding” to the lawyers Oliver and Teijelo.
Oliver, the judge argues, “would have been used as a way to deliver a certain amount of money to Leire herself, through Oliver Gruppe S.L,” while Teijelo “would also have been used as an instrument to channel funds, both intended to cover the lawyer himself and to send amounts to a third party, both providing services for the alleged criminal organization.”
On the other hand, Pedraz demands identifying “the holders and authorized persons (full names, identification documents, contact phones, e-mail, tax, social or physical addresses, correspondence address, debit or credit cards issued with identification of their holders), as well as possible interpreters involved in case the persons do not speak or understand Spanish correctly.”
Up to 200,000 euros left the PSOE’s bank accounts to finance the plot’s activity, according to what investigators have documented in reports so far. The investigation includes several transfers from the party to Leire Díez via intermediaries for an amount exceeding 40,000 euros; to Teijelo, for 125,000 euros; and to the media Crónica Libre, for more than 18,000.
In this regard, the UCO highlights the role of the PSOE manager, Ana María Fuentes, “who issued the appropriate orders to prepare false invoices that would allow the transfer of funds” to the plumber.
Besides the investigation of the Leire case—a branch of the case for alleged corruption in Sepi—the PSOE risks being charged in the investigation of the Koldo case in the National Court. By order of the Supreme Court, Judge Ismael Moreno opened a separate case, still under secrecy, about the cash flow at the Ferraz headquarters.
