Prosecutor's Office confirms two meetings with PSOE-linked network amid sabotage probe
The Spanish Prosecutor's Office has acknowledged two meetings in 2025 between senior officials and a lawyer linked to an alleged criminal network that sought to derail corruption cases affecting the governing Socialist Party (PSOE).
The meetings acknowledged
The Fiscalía General del Estado informed Judge Santiago Pedraz on Wednesday that its then‑teniente fiscal, Diego Villafañe, and fiscal Beatriz López Pesquera held two meetings with lawyer Jacobo Teijelo in 2025. The first, on 6 March, included the presence of ex‑PSOE member Leire Díez. The second, at an unspecified date in late March or early April, also involved Díez.
What was discussed
Teijelo told the prosecutors about "a series of facts allegedly committed by third parties that could be criminally relevant", but the information was described as "lacking any kind of concrete evidentiary basis". The prosecutors concluded that no action was warranted and did nothing with the material. Both Villafañe and López Pesquera later reported the meetings to former Attorney General Álvaro García Ortiz.
Leire Díez's role and knowledge
Prosecution sources told laSexta that "nobody knew Leire Díez" at that time and that she was introduced simply as a colleague of the lawyer. García Ortiz was informed only afterwards and gave no instructions. "We found out later," the sources said. Díez herself was heard in intercepted messages claiming a direct channel to the Attorney General.
The FGE will receive you. I'll tell you what he told me.
Wider investigation points to five meetings
The UCO police unit has documented at least five encounters in the Fiscalía headquarters involving Díez and other figures, including the 6 March meeting and a later one where Teijelo expressed his intention to file multiple complaints. Investigators believe the network paid and extorted officials to sabotage corruption probes targeting the PSOE, the government, and the president's family.
- Leire Díez tells lawyer Antonio García Cabrera via message: 'The FGE will receive you.'
- Díez tells Jacobo Teijelo about an upcoming meeting, calling it 'a fundamental day'.
- First meeting: Villafañe, López Pesquera, Teijelo, and Díez.
- Second meeting: Villafañe meets again with Teijelo (and presumably Díez) to discuss filing complaints.
- Díez files a complaint against prosecutor José Grinda.
- The complaint against Grinda is set to be archived, according to the Prosecutor's report.
Ongoing judicial inquiry
Judge Pedraz is overseeing a case for membership in a criminal organization against several people, including Leire Díez and Jacobo Teijelo. In September 2025, Díez filed a complaint against prosecutor José Grinda; the Prosecutor's report states that the complaint was archived in December 2026 as it contained only "mere assertions" without indicia of a crime.
