The minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Courts, Félix Bolaños, has demanded that the Partido Popular clarify whether meetings took place in which payments would have been offered and what the "objective" was of the meetings with the former ministerial adviser Koldo García and the former Socialist Party militant Leire Díez.
Bolaños has spoken in these terms after Leire Díez, who has been implicated for her alleged role in the plot investigated in the National Court to derail legal cases that affect the Executive of Pedro Sánchez, relates in her book 'Desmontando las Cloacas' that lawyers linked to the PP, in the same way as they would have with the former adviser to the minister José Luis Ábalos, offered money in exchange for information against the President of the Government.
In an interview in 'RNE', collected by Europa Press, the minister has launched "some questions" at the party of Alberto Núñez Feijóo. "The fundamental thing is whether the PP offered money to Koldo García", Bolaños said, who recalled that the 'populares' first denied a meeting and then it seems "that yes, it was". "Then we will have to know exactly what happened with that meeting", he has asserted.
In this context, the head of the Presidency portfolio has questioned "for what" Koldo García and Leire Díez would have met with PP representatives. "Were they going to talk about the weather or was it some other objective?", he indicated, stressing that these are issues that "have to be clarified" because "offering money to falsely accuse the President of the Government, his wife, and members of the Government of crimes is extremely serious".
PP's response to Leire Díez's accusations
From the PP they claim that Leire Díez's statements explain the PSOE's attitude toward her. "After seeing that news, it makes me fit better now why the PSOE hasn't filed a complaint against her", PP sources have said, pointing to a supposed socialist collusion.
The national leadership of the PP has flatly rejected having proposed payments to Koldo García to defame Sánchez. Feijóo himself said this week that the party "never" offered anything to the former ministerial adviser, who has said that he reached an agreement with the PP lawyer, until now, on the payment of his defenses and one million euros in exchange for information to "overthrow" Pedro Sánchez.
In her book, titled 'Unpacking the Sewers: Ten years of police, prosecutors and journalists in the archive of Patricia López', Leire Díez sets out over more than 400 pages her account of the facts and the role that, according to her, different political and legal actors would have played.
The former socialist militant maintains that "satellites" of the PP offered her two million euros and payment for her defense so that she would "lie about Pedro Sánchez". As she explains, the assignment was the same" that Koldo testified to before the Supreme Court, "to attack the Government by inventing things".
"To me, the offer came accompanied by warnings about my judicial situation and promises of 'aid' for those of us who took part in that mockery of justice", the former socialist militant specifies.