The Prosecutor's Office claims that former socialist leader Gaspar Zarrías sent PSOE's fixer, Leire Díez, a list containing the names and professional identification numbers of several UCO agents who testified in the ERE trial in Andalusia.
The historic socialist leader Gaspar Zarrías sent a message to PSOE's fixer, Leire Díez, with a list that included the identities of several agents from the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard who had testified as witnesses in the ERE trial in Andalusia, accompanied by their respective Professional Identity Card (TIP) numbers.
The conversation is part of the documentation seized by the Civil Guard during the investigation and has been incorporated into the judicial proceedings. According to the information gathered in the Public Prosecutor's written statement, this exchange of messages serves to reinforce the thesis that Zarrías played an active role within the alleged structure being investigated.
The message sent by the former socialist leader was brief but explicit: "And these are all the UCOS that testified in court," he wrote to Leire Díez before sending the list of agents who had appeared during the judicial process regarding the employment regulation files in Andalusia.
For the Prosecutor's Office, this episode does not constitute an isolated fact. The Public Prosecutor's Office argues that obtaining the professional identities of the investigators was part of a broader strategy aimed at gathering information about the Civil Guards responsible for the main corruption investigations affecting the PSOE and people in its surroundings.
Investigators consider the context in which this exchange of information took place to be particularly relevant. In their view, the objective was not limited to identifying those who had participated in the ERE trial, but was part of a dynamic aimed at obtaining personal and professional data of the agents involved in particularly sensitive procedures.
The report prepared by the UCO, later adopted by the Prosecutor's Office and fully incorporated into the case, attributes to the investigated organization various actions aimed at obtaining information about those responsible for these judicial investigations. Among them is the sending of the list with the names and professional identification numbers of the agents who testified in one of the most significant corruption cases in recent Andalusian history.
Based on these elements, the Public Prosecutor's Office argues that the collection of this information was part of an action aimed at attempting to neutralize the investigations by knowing the identities of the Civil Guard members responsible for carrying them out, a circumstance it considers relevant within the set of proceedings that make up the case.
The ERE case in Andalusia is one of the largest corruption scandals in Spain, with over a decade of investigations and dozens of indictments. The revelation that senior officials of the Andalusian PSOE allegedly tried to obtain information about the agents investigating the case adds a new dimension to the judicial process.
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