The PSOE launched its judicial offensive against Moreno weeks after creating the 'Leire Díez command'
The socialist complaint against the Andalusian Government over SAS contracts arrived 55 days after the alleged scheme was activated. ABC reveals the coincidence of dates, payments and meetings in Ferraz.
The SAS complaint and the 'Leire command', two offensives born in the same Ferraz offices
According to ABC, the PSOE deployed its judicial offensive against the Andalusian Government of Juanma Moreno—over emergency contracts for the Andalusian Health Service (SAS)—just fifty-five days after launching the so-called 'Leire Díez command' structure. The crossing of dates between the meetings held at the party's Madrid headquarters in Ferraz, the payments of the alleged scheme and police reports suggests that the decisions to judicially pressure the PP executive in Andalusia were made in the same offices, by the same people and within the same timeframe in which the party was, according to judicial investigation, financing an alleged criminal network dedicated to obstructing cases affecting the PSOE or the circle of Government president Pedro Sánchez.
According to the ruling by National High Court judge Santiago Pedraz, the supposed network was directed by Santos Cerdán, then the party's Secretary for Organisation and a trusted associate of Sánchez. Cerdán, who faces several charges, had allegedly delegated operational coordination to Leire Díez, the party's so-called 'plumber', placed in two public companies of the State Society for Industrial Holdings (SEPI): Enusa and Correos.
The last week of April 2024, the starting point
The 'Leire command' began operating in the last week of April 2024, a period that coincided with the indictment of Begoña Gómez and the five days in which Sánchez announced he was taking time to reflect on whether to resign. Two days after publishing his well-known letter to citizens—on 26 April—the first documented meeting took place at the party's central headquarters: Leire Díez and businessman Javier Pérez Dolset were received by Cerdán in Ferraz. The judge places this meeting as the starting point for actions to destabilise judicial cases against the Government.
Fifty-five days after that first meeting, Ferraz activated the Andalusian offensive. On 20 June 2024, the thirty socialist deputies in the Andalusian Parliament filed a complaint against the PP Government for alleged misappropriation of public funds and misfeasance in SAS emergency contracts, awarded during the pandemic for a value of 300 million euros. Court of First Instance number 13 in Seville investigated these assignments to the current SAS manager, Valle García Sánchez, and her predecessors Miguel Ángel Guzmán and Diego Vargas Ortega.
Opaque payments and meetings in Ferraz
Six days after filing the complaint, on 26 June 2024, the alleged opaque payments from the party to Leire Díez began. According to the National High Court ruling, Díez presented herself as Cerdán's "right hand" in meetings with prosecutors, civil guards and accused individuals in different cases, with the aim of obtaining information in exchange for promises of professional improvements or promotions. That same month, the 'plumber' began receiving 4,000 euros monthly—totalling 16,000 euros—through Zaño Sociedad Consultora SL, a company owned by former Andalusian adviser Gaspar Zarrías, who was convicted in the ERE case in Andalusia.
The ruling states that these payments were made with the "presumed agreement" of PSOE manager Ana Fuentes, who issued "procurement orders on which to prepare false invoices" to justify the transfer of funds to Díez as compensation for her work outside the bounds of legality.
Between April 2024 and May 2025, the Civil Guard's Central Operations Unit (UCO) documented 39 meetings of the alleged scheme, 22 of which were held in Ferraz.
Ana Fuentes signs the power of attorney that extends the offensive to Cádiz
In the midst of the 'Leire command's' activity, the party expanded its Andalusian front. On 22 April 2025, Ana Fuentes—the same manager investigated for alleged payments to the former socialist activist—signed a power of attorney certificate apud-acta. This power authorised lawyers from a Seville law firm—where the daughter of former PSOE Andalusian leader Juan Espadas also works—to appear on behalf of the party as a private prosecutor in another case at Court of First Instance number 3 in Cádiz against the SAS, which is investigating alleged fragmentation of health contracts by the provincial purchasing centre of the regional government's agency.
The trigger for that Cádiz investigation was a complaint filed by Podemos to which the PSOE subsequently joined, thereby taking direct control of the prosecution. The manoeuvre took place a few weeks before a Civil Guard report emerged placing Cerdán as the ringleader of a scheme linked to the alleged rigging of public works contracts during the tenure of Transport Minister José Luis Ábalos, as part of the so-called 'Koldo case'.
In parallel, former Secretary for Organisation Santos Cerdán, Leire Díez, former SEPI president Vicente Fernández and Antxon Alonso—a personal friend of Cerdán—would have formed part of an alleged "organised group" aimed at obtaining commissions through the "steering of administrative procedures" of the State for the benefit of certain companies.
Sánchez used the SAS case three times as a parliamentary argument
With the complaints underway, Pedro Sánchez systematically resorted to the SAS case as a political counterweight against PP criticism over the 'Koldo case' and investigations affecting his wife and brother.
The president employed this parliamentary ammunition on three occasions throughout 2025. On 18 June, during a Government control session before Alberto Núñez Feijóo, Sánchez stated that "Moreno Bonilla expelled and dismissed the comptrollers who report corruption cases in the SAS". On 30 October, during his appearance before the Senate's investigation commission on the 'Koldo case', the president criticised the awarding, in his words, "without oversight" of contracts worth 242 million in the Andalusian SAS.
Source: ABC