The Provincial Prosecutor of Madrid has asked to investigate in the Madrid courts to the former PSOE Leire Díez and businessman Javier Pérez Dolset for possible attempt to bribe two prosecutors: Ignacio Stampa, known for having been one of the anti -corruption prosecutors in the 'Villarejo case', and the prosecutor of the 'Case 3%', José Grinda.
This is stated in a decree, to which Europa Press has had access, in which the prosecutor Juan Pablo Nieto asks the competent Madrid Court to open previous proceedings, incorporates the documentation that the Prosecutor's Office has in hand and claims to the prosecutor Stampa the “recording of the conversations held with the investigated Leire Díez and Javier Pérez Dolset”. It also sees that declaration be taken to both of them as investigated.
The Public Ministry adopts this decision after on June 3 Stampa notified the Superior Prosecutor's Office of the Community of Madrid that he had met with Díez and Pérez Dolset on May 7, “after being summoned through a third party” with the “excuse of conveying apologies of government instances for the treatment given during his last stage in the Anti -Corruption Prosecutor's Office”.
According to the decree, at that meeting Díez and Pérez Dolset asked Stampa “information on sensitive investigations” of the Anti -Corruption Prosecutor's Office, as well as “alleged irregularities of several public officials.” The ex -militant of the PSOE and the businessman would have offered him in return “supposedly governmental help” in the litigation he maintains with the Ministry of Justice.
On June 10, Stampa ratified his writing and made the recording of the conversations available to the investigation. Thus, the grandson prosecutor agreed to unite his complaint with which he presented last February another anti -corruption prosecutor, José Grinda.
Connection between Grinda and Stampa's complaint
Specifically, Grinda denounced a possible attempt to bribe after having received a message from a journalist who offered him a destination abroad in exchange for obtaining sensitive information about different causes, such as 'Case 3%', which revolves around the alleged illegal financing of CDC.
The Provincial Prosecutor of Madrid opened preprocessal proceedings and tried to contact the journalist without any success. Thus, he agreed to his archive, notwithstanding that “new facts” appeared that allowed the investigation to resume. After receiving the complaint from Stampa, the Public Ministry decided to accumulate its case with that of Grinda to understand that “there is a connection between the facts denounced by both prosecutors.”
After the reopening of the case, Grinda ratified his initial complaint and added “new circumstances about the facts”: that the offer made by the journalist came from Leire Díez. Therefore, the Provincial Prosecutor of Madrid urges the Madrid courts to investigate Díez and Pérez Dolset for possible attempted bribery to two prosecutors.
It will not accumulate for the cause open by bribery
The decree, signed on July 17, had entrance to the Dean of the Courts of Madrid four days later and, according to a car of July 30 to which this news agency has also had access, fell to the Court of Instruction number 9 of Madrid.
This is the same Court that already investigates Díez for alleged crimes of bribery and traffic of influences and will take a statement on November 11 for the audios in which he is heard to offer judicial favors in exchange for sensitive information against members of the Central Operating Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard and the Prosecutor's Office.
However, Judge Arturo Zamarriego has rejected the request of the Provincial Prosecutor's Office of Madrid to accumulate the cases of Grinda and Stampa with the investigation that already has in progress against Díez when considering that “the facts denounced with the contents in the complaint” that gave rise to the case. Thus, he has returned the complaint of the Public Ministry, which could resort to the refusal or ask that the case be sent to the distribution to investigate another court.
