Overview

• Prosecutors at Spain’s Audiencia Nacional have opened investigatory diligences and instructed a forensic analysis of the USB handed over by former PSOE activist Leire Díez.
• The device was given by Díez to the PSOE in June and forwarded to the State Attorney General’s Office before being placed under the National Court’s purview.
• The case is being handled discreetly by deputy prosecutor Marta Durántez and chief prosecutor Jesús Alonso after the opening of proceedings at the end of June, according to ABC.
• Authorities weighed sending the matter to Anti-Corruption but ultimately kept the inquiry within the National Court’s prosecutor’s office.
• Díez is separately under investigation by Madrid’s Court of Instruction No. 9 for alleged bribery and influence peddling following the publication of recordings linked to her activities.