The magistrate of the National Court Santiago Pedraz has summoned to testify this Wednesday, in the capacity of investigated parties, the manager of the PSOE, Ana María Fuentes, and Ismael Oliver, former lawyer of the former ministerial advisor Koldo García, within the proceedings of the 'Leire Díez case'. This concerns the alleged scheme led by the former socialist leader Santos Cerdán and coordinated by the former member, with the aim of interfering in the judicial proceedings affecting the Government and the party itself.
After taking on the entirety of the case, once the previous instructor, Arturo Zamarriego, sent his part of the investigation, Pedraz had already indicated in an order the possible responsibility of the manager of the PSOE, at least as a supposed accomplice and, in any case, as a presumed author of a crime of falsification in commercial documents for the issuance of invoices that would not correspond to reality.
In a report sent to the court, the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard indicated that Fuentes, in her capacity as federal managing director of the party, "would have been the person responsible, with the mediation of Díez and under the directives of Cerdán, for falsifying two professional engagement notes": one with the law firm linked to Oliver and another with Cerdán's lawyer, Jacobo Teijelo.
According to the UCO, "both professional engagement notes would have been signed merely instrumentally, with the purpose of simulating a professional relationship between the parties and serving as a means for the political formation to materialize payments destined for both lawyers".
PSOE PAYMENTS
In relation to Ismael Oliver, the investigators of the UCO maintain that the PSOE would have used companies in his name and that of the former Andalusian leader Gaspar Zarrías to channel 43,225 euros towards Díez, using several companies "to send funds to Leire originating from the party". The agents detailed that the former member would have received in a bank account "at least five payments" linked to the investigated operation.
Of those five payments, four would have been transfers of 4,000 euros each, totaling 16,000 euros between June and September 2024, coming from the company Zaño Sociedad Consultora, linked to Zarrías. The fifth payment, of 27,225 euros, would have come from the company Oliver Gruppe, associated with the lawyer.
The UCO pointed out in its report that the four payrolls that Díez received from Zarrías' consultancy "would have really been a method for her to receive amounts originating from the PSOE."
In July, Pedraz decided to initiate a separate piece to investigate the payments that the PSOE allegedly made to the former socialist member, in which "the possible commission of various public crimes related to corruption" is analyzed.
In that same resolution, the judge ordered to request information from 12 banking entities to send data on movements and balances of more than 80 accounts linked to the case, among them six belonging to the PSOE, as well as others related to Oliver, Teijelo, and the companies Oliver Gruppe Estudio Jurídico, Oliver & Partners, in addition to Zarrías and his consultancy.