Overview

• Leire Díez is accused of offering legal and fiscal favours to businessman Alejandro Hamlyn in exchange for damaging information on the UCO and its commander, Antonio Balas.
• The PP and Vox have lodged criminal complaints against Díez and three businessmen for alleged bribery, influence peddling and obstruction of justice.
• Alberto Núñez Feijóo branded the plotted operation “mafia pure,” announced that the PP’s legal team is evaluating court action and plans to summon Díez before a Senate commission.
• The PSOE denies any formal link to Díez’s activities, asserts she was never on the party payroll and reserves the right to pursue defamation suits.
• Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska refused to initiate executive action against Díez and urged judicial authorities to take up the case.