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MADRID – Leire Díez, formerly affiliated with the PSOE, recently asserted that her meetings with business figures to gather intelligence regarding alleged police misconduct were part of a journalistic examination. To support this claim,she provided the party with a USB drive containing data,including audio recordings featuring former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo and former minister María Dolores de Cospedal. According to reports from El País,one recording captures a conversation in which thay discuss prosecutor josé Grinda,with Cospedal allegedly concluding that he “must be killed.”
Many of the audio files and documents on the USB drive presented by Díez are already in the possession of the courts. Still, the PSOE has officially submitted this information to the Prosecutor’s Office, the future course of action by the Public Ministry remains uncertain.The conversation between Cospedal and Villarejo on the USB drive reportedly dates back to 2017, during the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office’s investigation into the retired commissioner. This period coincides with the “Tándem case” and numerous related legal proceedings stemming from the seized audio recordings. The specific audio in question was recorded by Villarejo and pertains to the initial investigations that led to his arrest.According to El País, Villarejo urges Cospedal to engage with the Ministry of Interior to replace the police leadership, claiming that “those above are from the PSOE.” Cospedal allegedly responds, “I am behind the interior efforts and I think we are going to get it (…) I think the new structure is made, and the same civil guard.” The former commissioner stresses the urgency of the matter, referencing the impending independence referendum of October 1.
During the discussion, Margarita Robles, then the PSOE’s spokesperson in Congress, is mentioned, along with an alleged proposal from the party, then in opposition, to mediate with the Prosecutor’s Office to secure Villarejo’s release if he claimed that “Operation Catalonia” was a PP initiative. It is indeed at this point that Cospedal reportedly states, “Grinda you have to kill him.”
The conflict between Villarejo and Grinda dates back to 2015, two years before the conversation with Cospedal.Villarejo blamed Grinda for the investigation against him, despite othre prosecutors being responsible, and maintained that he was working for the National Intelligence Center.
Grinda has overseen numerous investigations into corruption cases affecting independence movements,including the legal proceedings involving Javier Pérez Dolset,the businessman who collaborated with Leire Díez and is featured in the recently released recordings.
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