Marlaska rules out action against Leire Díez and urges judicial authority to intervene

The government has ruled out initiating actions against Leire Díez, the PSOE member who offered to mediate with the Prosecutor's Office on behalf of one of the ringleaders of the hydrocarbon fraud, Alejandro Hamlyn, in exchange for evidence that could implicate the lieutenant colonel of the Civil Guard responsible for several judicial investigations affecting Pedro Sánchez's circle. The PP and Vox have already announced their intention to take her to court for conspiring against the UCO, but Interior Minister Fernando Grande Marlaska argued today that it is not the Executive's role to take that step.

Marlaska argued that the "scope" of the recording in which the former socialist senior official is heard referring to the Civil Guard as "Camorra" and asking Hamlyn for a "little paper" against the head of the UCO's Economic Crime Department, Antonio Balas, in the company of lawyer Jacobo Teijelo and businessman Javier Pérez Dolset, who is on trial for subsidy fraud, "may refer to ongoing judicial proceedings" and therefore, it should be the "judicial authority" that "if necessary" takes "appropriate measures."