The PP has presented a document in the National Court requesting "the accusation of the PSOE for bribery, embezzlement, influence peddling, money laundering and illegal financing." This was revealed this Tuesday by sources from Genoa.
This is the first judicial movement of the pre-campaign by the main opposition party, after Pedro Sánchez called early elections for next November 29. Faced with information that suggests that the call could stop judicial actions regarding the PSOE and Pedro Sánchez, the PP intends to accelerate them.
In the letter, sent to the investigator of the PSOE sewer case, magistrate Santiago Pedraz, the PP denounces, as a popular accusation, the "wide catalog of criminal actions" that in its opinion was launched by the leadership of the Socialist Party after Sánchez's five days of reflection, with the aim of "protecting the interests of the Government and the PSOE" in the face of ongoing judicial investigations.
All of this under a "criminal organization" led, presumably, by the then Secretary of the Socialist Organization, Santos Cerdán, and created at the PSOE headquarters itself, located on Ferraz Street in Madrid. The PP assures that Ferraz "put all the operational and financial means of the party at the disposal of the criminal organization led by" Santos Cerdán, who also had the "collaboration" of the accused Ana María Fuentes Pacheco, current manager of the PSOE.
The PP has taken this step on the same day that EL MUNDO has published that the electoral advance will cause the foreseeable accusation of the PSOE as a legal entity in the case of the Ferraz sewers to be delayed so as not to interfere with the citizens' appointment with the polls.
Prosecutors' sources consulted by EL MUNDO indicated that the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office sees sufficient reasons to request the indictment of the party after the statement given by its manager, Ana María Fuentes, before Judge Santiago Pedraz in which she unloaded on Santos Cerdán the responsibility for payments to members of the alleged criminal organization, dedicated to botching legal cases and extorting judges and prosecutors. The same sources categorically add that, once these statements have been made this fall, in the pre-campaign or electoral campaign the investigation will not be requested as a legal entity of any political party, in reference to the Socialist Party.
Now, the main opposition party denounces that "it was the Socialist Party itself that financed the operational and logistical expenses of the criminal organization", on the express instruction of Santos Cerdán, who held "quasi-absolute, unchecked" power, as even the president of the PSOE, Cristina Narbona, or the party manager in court have acknowledged.
In this sense, the PP denounces that "it is not only that the PSOE promoted this organization, but that it became directly involved in the plot, giving as an example the payments made to Leire Díez and other related people, such as Jacobo Teijelo or Ismael Oliver." The PP also remembers that the PSOE "financed, with public funds, Crónica Libre", which became an "instrumental means of the criminal organization" to reward its members. "The payments were made as campaign expenses, authorized by the party's then communications director, Ion Antolín. Everything was used to finance the sewers, also through friendly consulting firms such as Zaño, directed by the former socialist leader and also accused, Gaspar Zarrías," the PP sources continue.
It must be remembered that the National Court has demanded that the PSOE contribute the donations it received between 2017 and 2024 to the cause initiated by the party's alleged irregular financing.
Likewise, Judge Ismael Moreno, who is investigating another part of the possible irregular financing of the PSOE, has requested the Court of Accounts to send him the donations received by Pedro Sánchez's party, which were audited by this body.
The objective of this diligence is to be able to cross-check data on the so-called 'smurfing' that Judge Moreno is secretly investigating as an alleged means of opaque financing of the Government party.
Furthermore, as this newspaper announced, the Court is investigating a fictitious contract of 15 million euros linked to the alleged irregular financing of the PSOE. The document was provided by businessman Víctor de Aldama in the secret piece in which Judge Moreno traces the accounts of the group led by Pedro Sánchez.
Along with this document, related to the commercialization of the millionaire quota of Venezuelan oil detected by the Civil Guard in the hydrocarbons case - the envelope that was in the possession of Aldama and that was also delivered by the businessman to the Justice -, he testified before the magistrate that he made an important delivery of cash to Koldo García to defray the expenses of the party and the Socialist International at the request of the former advisor of José Luis Ábalos.
These funds came, according to Aldama's testimony, from a first advance payment from the Venezuelan state oil company that was channeled through an international network.
