US EditionLeire Díez: The Latest Chapter in the Corruption Saga Affecting Spain's PM
- On Wednesday, Leire Díez, a former associate of Spain's Socialist party, faced scrutiny after leaked audio implicated her in a corruption-related controversy.
- The controversy arose from recordings suggesting Díez offered judicial leniency to a police commander and businessman in return for information on investigators probing corruption linked to Pedro Sánchez's close circle.
- The police unit involved is the Guardia Civil’s anti-corruption division investigating graft allegations involving Sánchez’s wife, brother, and former aide, while opposition parties demanded Sánchez explain the case in parliament.
- Díez denied orchestrating a smear campaign, claimed she was researching a book independently, resigned from the party, and declared, "I am not a woman in the shadows" during a tense press conference.
- The main opposition PP called for a Sunday protest accusing the government of "mafia practices," while Sánchez dismissed investigations as a right-wing smear campaign aimed at destabilizing his administration.
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As for political current affairs, the Leire Díez scandal has marked the last few hours in our country. Nicknamed as a PSOE 'fontanera', the name of the former socialist militant has not stopped ringing after leaked recordings were released, in which she appeared asking for committed information about members of the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard.One of the most prominent since the news was released has been the President of th…
In times of cynicism and venality, it is exciting to see that there are still those who trust in journalism, in the ability of knowledge to change things, in the power of denunciation and speech. In times of voluntary servitude, with so many reporters trapped in a network of mutual sympathies and favors, and endowed with precariousness, it is inspiring to see that someone—a woman, obviously!—, at their own risk, without bonds or mortgages, witho…
The PSOE Links Aldama to the PP to Try to Turn Their Accusations in a Storm over the Leire Díez Case
The PSOE tries to turn the focus away from the scandals of supposed corruption that have been known in recent weeks applying the maxim that the best defense is a good attack. After the sperpentic press conference offered this Wednesday by the former socialist militant Leire Díez, who ended with the commissioner investigated by justice Victor de Aldama accusing her in a voice of a liar, both the PSOE and the government opted for a new strategy: t…
Leire Díez: The latest chapter in the corruption saga affecting Spain's PM
A former member of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's Socialist party on Wednesday denied waging a smear campaign against a police unit investigating corruption accusations targeting members of his inner circle.
The former PSOE militant, in a brief appearance at the end of which Aldama has been faced, claims that she was only doing an investigation that she hopes to collect in a book Read
The leaked audios in which the so-called PSOE “fontanera”, Leire Díez, asked for information against Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Balas of the Civil Guard, head of the UCO’s Department of Economic Crime, are under the media’s spotlight as new information gets known. Different people are linked to this case, some for participating in the search for compromised information and others for being victims of this alleged plot. The latter. Diez gave a pr…
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