The State Attorney General, Teresa Peramato, has emphasized that implying that the Attorney General's Office is involved in a criminal plot is an "absolute lack of respect for the institution" and has insisted that she has already sent to the judge in the 'Leire Díez case' "all the information" relating to the meetings of former officials of the Public Prosecutor's Office with the former socialist militant, investigated in the National Court for allegedly trying to halt judicial proceedings affecting the Government and the PSOE.
Peramato appeared this Friday before the Justice Commission of the Senate, where she explained that she sent Magistrate Santiago Pedraz, the investigating judge of the alleged plot, a report detailing the meetings held by former officials of the Prosecutor's Office with individuals mentioned in the case.
In this regard, she specified that the available documentation was sent to Pedraz "as a consequence of the existing files in the Prosecutor's Office and the request made by the chief prosecutor of the Technical Secretariat in order to ascertain what happened."
She added that it will be the judge who, considering whether that information is sufficient or not, must order new measures to advance the investigation. "And if we are requested again, the information we may have will be provided, if there is anything else, although I must tell you that all the information in our possession has already been given," she stressed.
When questioned by the groups about these contacts, the Attorney General limited her explanations, arguing that "this is neither the place nor the time" to make assessments, given that the case is still in the investigation phase and that, until a sentence is reached or "at least the oral trial," she has an "obligation of confidentiality."
SHE DEFENDS THAT SHE GAVE "NO INSTRUCTION"
Peramato responded to the accusations made by senators from the PP and Vox and reproached that, "although it has not been said directly, it has been implied that the Prosecutor's Office belongs to or may be at the service of a criminal plot."
"I think that is an absolute lack of respect for the institution I represent. The 2,804 prosecutors who work in all the courts in Spain work with rigor, with absolute impartiality, with autonomy, and moreover with exclusive respect for legality," she defended, vindicating the actions of the Public Prosecutor's Office.
In his opinion, to suggest that prosecutors are part of a criminal plot "is to put the daily work" of the prosecutorial career "at the mercy of the horses." "The Prosecutor's Office, in no way, can be understood as linked to any criminal plot," he insisted.
He also stressed that he has "not had to give any instruction" to other prosecutors on procedures related to alleged corruption: "Neither in the 'Plus Ultra case', nor in the 'Koldo case', there has been no type of instruction."
PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE ACKNOWLEDGED TWO MEETINGS WITH DÍEZ
The Attorney General's Office informed Judge Pedraz that Diego Villafañe, who was deputy prosecutor of the Technical Secretariat when Álvaro García Ortiz directed the Public Ministry, held two meetings with Díez and with Jacobo Teijelo, lawyer for former socialist leader Santos Cerdán.
Prosecutorial sources told Europa Press that they sent the magistrate the requested information about possible meetings held at the institution's headquarters between April 2024 and June 2025 with people linked to the alleged plot.
The judge asked to clarify whether visits to the Prosecutor's Office were made by Díez, Teijelo, lawyer Ismael Oliver or businessman Javier Pérez Dolset, all of them investigated in the 'Leire Díez case', as well as by the lawyer of retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo, José García Cabrera, cited as a witness in the procedure.
The same sources specified that "there are no records" of access to the Attorney General's Office headquarters by these people and did not specify where the acknowledged meetings were held.
According to details, Villafañe and the then prosecutor of the Technical Secretariat, Beatriz López, held on March 6, 2025 "a meeting" with Teijelo "in which he reported the existence of a series of facts allegedly committed by third parties that could have criminal relevance." Between late March and early April, Villafañe met again with Cerdán's lawyer, according to the same sources.