Lawyer Leticia de la Hoz has resigned from the defense of Koldo García, former advisor to former minister José Luis Ábalos. The lawyer has sent a brief letter to the National Court to announce her decision, which she bases on “professional reasons”, without going any further in her explanations. De la Hoz emphasizes that the reasons that led him to take this step are covered “by professional secrecy.” “The resignation has been previously communicated to my client, with sufficient notice so that he can provide his defense,” he adds.
This movement occurs after De la Hoz revealed that Okdiario paid for the defense of Koldo García, who has subsequently assured that the PP offered him to take care of those expenses and one million euros in exchange for providing information that would serve to bring down President Pedro Sánchez. Given the scandal that has been generated, sources close to De la Hoz explain that she has resigned so as not to harm her own defense in the Leire Díez case, where she is accused, and on the recommendation of her lawyer.
The initiative of the lawyer, who still represented García in the lines of investigation of the Koldo case that are still alive in the National Court, thus opens a new chapter. In June 2025, De la Hoz assumed the defense of Ábalos's former advisor, whom he defended in the trial held in the Supreme Court for the masks case - which ended with a sentence of almost 20 years in prison for Koldo García. However, her name gained greater repercussion after Judge Santiago Pedraz accused her in the Leire Díez case after businesswoman Carmen Pano asserted that the lawyer offered her a bribe in exchange for modifying her testimony about an alleged delivery of money at the PSOE headquarters.
The lawyer has always denied Pano's accusation. But, at the insistence of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office to know if Ferraz was behind the payment for Koldo García's defense, he gave Judge Pedraz two invoices sent to the company Dos Mil Palabras, publisher of the sensationalist website Okdiario, which paid him 242,000 euros (VAT included) to cover García's "fees, tariffs and expenses for legal advice and procedures." One is from November 27, 2025, when the far-right digital published an “exclusive” interview with the former advisor, who attacked the Government; and the other, from January 23, 2026.
De la Hoz thus wanted to refute the thesis that he maneuvered in favor of the socialists and that he had links with the formation: "I have neither been a member, nor am I of the PSOE. I have never even voted for them. It is something that is irrelevant, what happens is that I have to say it because I am seen as a socialist sewage lawyer...", De la Hoz stressed when testifying in the Leire Díez case in the Court.
Beyond the legal field, the revelation of Okdiario's payments has caused a real political earthquake. Next, through an audio sent to Cadena SER, Koldo García stated that he held a meeting with the PP lawyer, Alberto Durán, and that he promised him a series of personal and economic benefits if he charged against the Sánchez Executive. According to his version, denied by Durán, he offered to "remove" his family from the Koldo case, "pay" for his "defense" and "the amount of one million euros in exchange for statements that affected relevant people in the Government": "To the president; especially his wife [Begoña Gómez]; to the former president [José Luis Rodríguez] Zapatero and some others, even lying," the former advisor added.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo, president of the popular parties, denies this: “It is absolutely false.” “In the name of the PP, using the PP, no one has been offered a euro,” said the opposition leader this Monday, when he tried to settle the issue after two senior conservative officials contradicted each other. At the moment, no one from the PP has accepted the offer to Koldo García; But, when denying it, the spokesperson in Congress, Ester Muñoz, also denied that a meeting with Ábalos's former advisor took place. An extreme that Cuca Gamarra, deputy secretary of Institutional Regeneration, later admitted.
For its part, the PSOE charges against the PP. President Sánchez stated in an interview: "The PP has met with people who have defamed the Government, me or my wife to harm me. Which shows that the PP has bought corruption. It seems that in the PSOE, whoever does it pays; and in the PP, whoever does it, gets paid to defame."
