The UCO believes the former post chairman gave Leire Díez a position
According to the UCO, Juan Manuel Serrano actively participated in the facts investigated, "bothin relation to profit in the business sphere of the SEPI and in relation to the defence of the interests of certain members of the PSOE and the Spanish Government ".
The Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard considers that the former chief of staff of PedroSánchezand former president of thePost Office, Juan Manuel Serrano, won a position in this organizationforformer socialist militant Leire Díez , whose aim was to ensure that the members of the network he formed together with the former president of the SEPI, Vicente Fernández , had important positions for their benefit.
In this regard, he has given him a "leading role"in the network, stressing the" criminal significance "of the first action," which is considered to be of interest to the case and in which the elements gathered involve Serrano, and which relates to thevery appointment of Leire as head of the Local Administration Area of the Post Office ", as stated in the final report to thejudge of the case, Santiago Pedraz .
According to the UCO, Juan Manuel Serranowas actively involved in the facts investigated, "both in relation to the obtaining of profits in the business sphere of the SEPI and in the defence of the interests of certain members of the PSOE and the Spanish Government".
For the position held by Leire Díez in the Post Office, the UCO explains that at least five internal candidacies were submitted from the Post Office staff, but Patricia Álvarez Sánchez, Deputy Director of Organizational Development and People , believed that none was in line with the required profile, so an external search was needed, so Leire was chosen as the ideal profilefor an interview as .
Leire Díez explained that her primary role was to "protect" Serrano and said she wanted the SDEP to be a "reference office" for issues like "presidential advisory director, "and a percentage of those contracts could be carried by Vicente Fernández .
Fernandez, the report adds, expressed an interest in the speedy conclusion of the legal advice contract so that Manuel Serrano would remain president of the Post Office at the time of deciding on the extension of the contract, from which it could be inferred that Serrano "could have been aware of the circumstances of that contract and that, without his intervention, the possible extension of the contract would be in danger".
For the award of all contracts awarded to SDEP, the former president of the SEPI receivedabout 214,000 euros between 2022 and 2024.
According to the UCO in its report, the relationship between Leire Díez and Serrano began at least in November 2020, when the first WhatsApp messages between the two were found when Leire was in ENUSA. Serrano was president of the Post Office from July 2018 to December 2023, and previously chaired the Cabinet of the Federal Executive Committee of the PSOE between 2014 and 2018.
According to the UCO, these "frequent"conversations between the two also include references to meetings and encounters with Vicente Fernández. For example, in May 2021, he proposed to Serrano that Leire Díez be given a post in the Post Office, in which the former president of the SEPI asked him if" what we were talking about Leire could be set in motion. "
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