[Original in Spanish. This is an automated and paraphrased translation with minimal edits.]

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Judge Beatriz Biedma - the judge who convicted Spanish prime minister’s brother David Sanchez - stated this Thursday before Judge Santiago Pedraz at the National High Court that she feared for her life and that of her daughters when she heard of the contacts of Leire Diez’s plot with drug traffickers in the city of Badajoz.

[Leire Diez is a consultant reportedly close to Spain’s ruling Socialist party PSOE. Back in the spring, authorities started to probe Socialist party payments to Díez in an attempt to sway cases affecting the Socialist party and the government.]

Asked if he had felt threatened and feared for his life, he said yes, for her and for her daughters’.

Biedma described two episodes that generated alarm. The first, that when she went to pick up her daughters at school, they told her that her brother had been there, but she has no brother. And the second, who elsewhere told her that her secretary had been asking there before, but she has said that she has no secretary either.

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According to a report from the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard, one Spain’s law enforcement agencies, there has been a plot trying to neutralize Biedma.

According to his statement, former judge Luis José Sáenz de Tejada, sent from Leire Diez, called on the phone on December 23, 2024 and told that Biedma was “a fucking pain in her ass and that she had to be eliminated.”

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The law enforcement document [also reports about plans of] degrading the image of Biedma, e.g., by posting images made with artificial intelligence in which she appeared posing next to a false representation of the magistrate. According to the Civil Guard, its author, Javier Ulla Noya, is part of a group of false profiles on social networks linked to [a group of people from the ruling socialist party] itself.

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The Guarda Civil also reports [about] a member of the Los Rocos [drug] clan, known as Moto Mouse. After being asked about the true sense of expressions such as “eliminating” or “giving it a sieve,” it was quite clear: “Eliminating means killing her. A scare wasn’t going to make it.”

According to the account, the interest of the plot for the magistrate was in response to the case of Pedro Sánchez’s brother and, in exchange for collaboration, the drug clan would benefit from “tax issues.”

This counter benefit, which consisted of advantages with the Tax Agency related to money from the clan itself blocked by the Treasury, is a derivative of the investigation until then unknown, which is in addition to that of the prison benefits that had so far been documented as a counterpart.

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