Leticia de la Hoz, lawyer for the former ministerial advisor Koldo García, has formally requested the PSOE to send to the judge of the National Court (AN) "whatever is in their files" about her between 2021 and 2025, the same time period requested by the investigating magistrate of the "Leire Díez case," Santiago Pedraz.
In a document accessed by Europa Press, De la Hoz emphasizes that the party has not hired her "either directly or indirectly, for general or specific matters," nor to take on Koldo's defense before the National Court or the Supreme Court.
The initiative is part of the request made by Pedraz to the PSOE to provide all documentation regarding the hiring of lawyers, professional offices, and consultants in any of its structures, both central and territorial, between 2021 and 2025. This information is part of the investigation into an alleged scheme aimed at interfering in judicial proceedings affecting the socialists, which would have been led by the former party leader Santos Cerdán and coordinated by the former member Leire Díez.
The magistrate first requested this data from the PSOE on October 6. Due to the lack of response, he reiterated the request three days ago and granted a period of 48 hours for the party to send it to the court.
The party then claimed that it needed more time to gather the information and that it had raised a query with the General Council of the Spanish Bar Association to determine whether the delivery of that documentation could violate professional secrecy.
Request for immediate delivery of data
In this context, De la Hoz –who is listed as being investigated in the case– urges the legal advisory of the PSOE to, "without waiting for the pronouncement" of the Bar Association, "make evident whatever is in their files, in any of their central or territorial bodies," related to her between 2021 and 2025, "or even up to the present."
"In the event that no contract, assignment, invoice, payment, or any data related to our represented party or the mentioned company is found in those files, issue a negative certification that expressly states this, as soon as possible," the lawyer demands from the PSOE.
It argues that, "if the party did not hire her, there is nothing in its files that professional secrecy protects regarding her," so that "any data about her person" could be made public "without hesitation, and without waiting for a pronouncement" from the collegiate body of the Bar Association.
In a ruling that this agency has also accessed, Judge Pedraz notes the receipt of the document from De la Hoz and orders it to be incorporated into the case.
Payments, alleged bribery, and conflict with the businesswoman
The lawyer already testified as an investigated party before the magistrate that she had not received payments from the PSOE, although she invoked her right to professional secrecy to avoid specifying who paid her fees.
The judge also keeps open a line of investigation regarding an alleged bribery by De la Hoz to the businesswoman who claims to have transported cash to the PSOE headquarters on Ferraz street in Madrid so that, allegedly, she would modify her statement before the court.
Pano declared in April before agents of the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard that De la Hoz and a partner from her office told both her and her driver in a meeting that "there were people interested in talking" with them "about the money deliveries in Ferraz," according to a report that this news agency accessed.
De la Hoz admitted in her statement that she had meetings with Pano, but denied that at any time was there a proposal to offer an alleged bribe to the businesswoman to withdraw or deny her claim that she brought 90,000 euros in cash to the socialist headquarters.
The lawyer attributed the accusations to an alleged revenge by the businesswoman, stemming from disagreements that arose between them in the context of an operation linked to the sale of a hydrocarbon operator.