Leire Díez's entourage, who tried to pressure Judge Beatriz Biedma for investigating Pedro Sánchez's brother, also targeted a second judge from Badajoz, Marta Hernández, according to the summary of the alleged plot to boycott corruption proceedings that affect the PSOE and the Government.
In the documents present in the case being investigated by Judge Santiago Pedraz, collected by the Servimedia agency, there are several mentions of the attempt to pressure this second magistrate and in which former judge Luis José Sáenz de Tejada, from Díez's entourage, would have been involved. The references appear in the UCO report on contacts with the Los Rochos clan, as well as in the allegations presented by Biedma.
According to the investigation by the Civil Guard into contacts with Los Rochos, a witness would have indicated the address of Judge Hernández in a meeting where there was talk of filing a complaint against her court and "organizing demonstrations in the street" against this official.
At the same time, Biedma's allegations delivered to Pedraz incorporate videos from Sáenz de Tejada's YouTube channel, in which Judge Hernández is attacked. Among them, in a recording from July 30, 2025, this judge is accused of opening a case in favor of the instructor of the procedure against David Sánchez, brother of the President of the Government.
Legal and administrative offensive
Until now, the actions of the alleged plot in Badajoz focused on Biedma. However, the UCO investigation reveals that the first target of Sáenz de Tejada's contacts would have been Judge Hernández.
Specifically, the Benemérita report explains that those first efforts would have been aimed "at promoting judicial or administrative actions" against Judge Hernández. Later, "at the initiative" of Sáenz de Tejada, the target would have become Biedma.
The central testimony in this matter is that of Juan José Collado, lawyer from Cáceres de Ángel Martín, El Cordobés, who was in prison for drug trafficking in a case instructed by Judge Hernández. Collado stated that he had three contacts with Sáenz de Tejada between September 2024 and February 2025.
The first was a phone call on September 6, 2024. According to the UCO, that contact occurred "a few days after the constitution of the group" of WhatsApp Vacations and Travel, made up of Díez, businessmen Javier Pérez Dolset and Joaquín Parra and former judge Sáenz de Tejada himself.
"Head of everything"
The second contact was a meeting in Badajoz on November 17, 2024, attended by Sáenz de Tejada, Martín's wife and the lawyer Collado. According to Benemérita, in this meeting they talk about "several magistrates, specifically Marta Hernández, Emilio Cancho and Beatriz Biedma", although "90% of the conversation focuses on Marta." The lawyer added that at that meeting there was talk of "complaining their respective courts and organizing street demonstrations" and provided information about "their home."
Collado ruled out, however, in his statement before the Benemérita, that an attack was considered. He stated that "there was no talk of any type of physical action or that could cause bodily harm to anyone." Lawyer Martín confirmed to the agents that the meeting was about the magistrate who was investigating their case, that is Marta Hernández.
The second clue that the plot wanted to act against another judge other than Biedma goes through Cintia Rocho, whom the UCO links, based on open sources, with the Los Rochos clan. According to her statement, Judge Hernández also investigated the cases of her brother and her husband: "Currently my brother is in prison paying a sentence for a case that Doña Marta investigated."
On December 8, 2024, after a comment he made in a Facebook group critical of the Badajoz judges, Rocho began a private conversation with Sáenz de Tejada. The UCO states that the former judge made reference to an alleged "judicial mafia" in Badajoz, "placing Hernández at the center of it." Of the magistrate, the former judge wrote that "she is the ringleader of everything that happens there" and that "she is dedicated to threatening anyone who falls into her networks," according to the conversation that the witness contributed to the investigators.
