The former socialist militant Leire Díez, investigated in the Audiencia Nacional for coordinating an alleged plot to disrupt judicial cases affecting the PSOE, has now published her version of events in a book in which she states that "satellites" of the PP offered her two million euros and payment of her defense in exchange for her "lying about Pedro Sánchez", the President of the Government.
The work, titled 'Dismantling the Sewers: Ten years of police, prosecutors and journalists in Patricia López's archive', exceeds 400 pages and has been consulted by Europa Press, which previews several passages in which Díez details her account of the contacts she claims to have received.
The offer she claims to have received
In one of the chapters, Leire Díez compares her case with that of former ministerial advisor Koldo García, sentenced to 19 years in prison by the Supreme Court in the mask case, and states that, if García was promised payment of his defense and one million euros to lie about Pedro Sánchez, she was offered "double: two million euros."
Díez assures that "the assignment was the same" as, according to her account, Koldo declared before the Supreme Court, that is, "to attack the Government by inventing things." Furthermore, she specifies that the offer came to her "accompanied by warnings about my judicial situation and promises of 'help' for those of us who participated in that legal trickery."
Intermediaries, messages and absence of contract
The former socialist militant maintains that the proposal did not come from "anyone with a Génova card in their wallet," but from "the satellites: lawyers and intermediaries who do not need an office at the party headquarters to move in its orbit, and who retain intact the contacts from the time of the 'sewers'" of former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.
"They present themselves as independent professionals, as friends willing to help or as simple messengers. They convey figures, conditions and warnings. And they never show who signs the check," she recounts in the book.
Díez denies having accepted that offer and states that, for that reason, "there is no invoice, no contract, no transfer," although she maintains that she has "witnesses" and "the messages that speak of the 'help'."
Her relationship with Santos Cerdán and her investigative work
When her name came to light, Leire Díez denied having maintained a "political, personal or unofficial collaboration" relationship with the former Organization Secretary of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán, also investigated in the Audiencia Nacional for allegedly leading the aforementioned plot.
The former socialist militant also defended that all the "investigation" work she has carried out "will see the light in one, two or three books" about the "malfunctioning of institutions" and stressed that she has not done them "for the PSOE," but in favor of the "rule of law."
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