Overview

• Council Fiscal unanimously approved José Grinda’s request for protection after he reported feeling unsettled by an audio leak of ex-PSOE councilor Leire Díez seeking compromising information on UCO officials and prosecutors.
• Leire Díez, known as “la fontanera,” is under investigation for allegedly collaborating with Javier Pérez Dolset and Alejandro Hamlyn to collect damaging data on Guardia Civil leadership and anticorruption prosecutors.
• Grinda’s disclosure of a bribe offer—promising an overseas posting in exchange for closing several cases—was archived when prosecutors could not locate the intermediary journalist.
• Fiscal General Álvaro García Ortiz has petitioned the Supreme Court to dismiss the leak case over Alberto González Amador’s tax fraud details, arguing the information was public before he received it.
• The ongoing inquiry into Díez’s network underscores intensifying political pressure on the PSOE and raises fresh concerns about internal influence-peddling and procedural integrity.