Juan Manuel Serrano requests the return of his mobile phone after the completion of the cloning in the 'Leire case'

The former president of the Post Office and former chief of staff of Pedro Sánchez in the PSOE, Juan Manuel Serrano, has formally requested the judge of the National Court investigating the 'Leire case' to return his mobile phone after the Civil Guard has completed the second cloning.

In a letter to which Europa Press has had access, Serrano asked Judge Santiago Pedraz this Friday to return the phone deposited in court, given that this Wednesday the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard completed the cloning operation of the device, as well as the working copy "to serve the purposes of the investigation."

This procedure was not carried out in the presence of a lawyer for Serrano, according to the same sources, and for this reason the defense of the former president of Correos had asked to annul the validity of this evidence. However, the judge ordered that the cloning be done again, this time in the presence of Serrano and his lawyer.

Serrano requests the return arguing that "after consulting the agents in charge of carrying out the cloning and subsequent copying, they confirmed that, in effect, the device is no longer necessary for the purposes of the investigation."

Accused in the Leire case

The judge ordered this operation last Tuesday, after Serrano's appearance at the National Court, where he had been summoned to verify the cloning of his mobile phone by the UCO after the seizure of his terminal at the end of last May, during the Civil Guard's request for information at the PSOE headquarters.

Within the framework of this case, the instructor charged Serrano on July 10 after the Civil Guard attributed him a "preeminent role" in the two branches of the 'Leire Díez case' mentioned above. Pedraz agreed to access, dump and analysis of Serrano's cell phone at police headquarters, indicating that "the opening of his devices, the full cloning and the safeguarding of its content will be carried out with the necessary technical conditions to ensure the authenticity and integrity of the data and the guarantees of its preservation."

This procedure, however, was not carried out in the presence of a Serrano lawyer, according to the same sources. For this reason, the defense of the former president of Correos had asked to annul the validity of this evidence, which is why he had been summoned to verify it.