The Prosecutor's Office supports investigating Leire Díez for the audio recordings about the UCO, considering that there may be a crime.

The Prosecutor's Office has expressed support for a judge to investigate former PSOE member Leire Díez for the audio recordings in which she is heard offering judicial favors in exchange for compromising information against members of the Central Operative Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard and the Prosecutor's Office, considering that the events may constitute a crime.

This is the position of the Economic Crimes Prosecutor's Office in the report requested by Madrid's Investigative Court Number 9 to rule on a complaint filed by Hazte Oír against Díez, for which it has opened an indeterminate investigation. Now, the Public Prosecutor's Office supports an investigation, according to La Razón and prosecutorial sources confirmed to Europa Press.

The association filed a complaint against Díez for alleged crimes of disclosure of secrets, procedural fraud, bribery, and influence peddling, stating that it cannot be alleged that her "negotiations" were "within the defendant's own professional activity, as she is neither a lawyer nor a prosecutor, and therefore has no legal involvement in the ongoing legal proceedings."

"Thus, his involvement can only be understood as either a 'commissioner' with the aim of allegedly enriching himself through influence peddling, or by exercising an official or unofficial mandate from the Government or a member of the Government with the power to issue instructions to the Public Prosecutor's Office and the State Attorney's Office," it stated.

In his opinion, it would be "also a case of influence peddling, used by the government to protect the interests of certain individuals or the PSOE itself."

This is the second Madrid court to decide to open a case into the former socialist activist's activities, following Investigative Court Number 2, which initiated proceedings for alleged influence peddling following a complaint from the Non-Commissioned Officers' Association of the Civil Guard (ASESGC).

Legal sources consulted have specified that the court that opened the first case has added the alleged crime of bribery to the proceedings, as requested by the complainants, who also pointed to obstruction of justice.

According to the audio recordings, Díez Castro offered favors to Alejandro Hamlyn, a suspect in a hydrocarbons case, if he provided him with compromising information about Civil Guard Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Balas, head of the Economic Crime Department at the University of Cordoba and responsible for the investigations into the wife and brother of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, as well as the "Koldo case" and the State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz.

In addition to these two complaints, there are others that have already been distributed but are pending resolution: one from the Unified Association of the Civil Guard (AUGC) in Madrid's Investigative Court Number 26 and the other from Iustitia Europa in Court Number 44.

Díez served as deputy mayor for the PSOE party in Vega de Pas (Cantabria), supported Sánchez in social media campaigns, and served as Director of Institutional Relations for Correos at the suggestion of Juan Manuel Serrano, who was the PSOE leader's chief of staff.

The former activist framed the audio recordings as journalistic work to publish a book about alleged state sewers, "in no way on behalf of anyone or representing anyone." "I am neither a public employee nor do I hold any position in the PSOE," she told the press in early June.