The DAO of the Civil Guard confirms in writing to the judge that Marlaska called him after the leak of Begoña's mail

The Director Adjunto Operativo (DAO) of the National Police Corps, Manuel Llamas, has disclosed to the judge overseeing the Leire Díez case that two calls were made by Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska and the head of the National Police Corps, Mercedes González, following the leak of Begoña Gómez's email address. This revelation comes through documents submitted by the DAO to the court, which detail how confidential investigations were opened with agents after these communications. According to the documents obtained by RTVE, the Office of the State Attorney, acting on behalf of the DAO, responded to a court order issued by Judge Santiago Pedraz on October 6. These documents explain some aspects related to the opening of confidential investigations involving agents of the National Police Corps. The judge had requested information regarding how the director general of the National Police Corps was informed about the initiation and resolution of several confidential investigations, including those related to the UCO unit. In its submission, the defense of the DAO, which is under investigation in the Leire Díez case, notes that the reason for this disclosure was because the director general herself initiated the process through a phone call, along with another from the minister of the interior. Both calls informed the DAO about the damage caused by the disclosure of personal data of individuals unrelated to the ongoing investigation being conducted by the UCO before a court in Badajoz. Manuel Llamas, like the director general of the armed forces, is under investigation for alleged crimes of abuse of power and obstruction of justice in the case examining a supposed plot to hinder investigations into the PSOE party and the government, allegedly led by former socialist leader Santos Cerdán and coordinated by former socialist activist Leire Díez. The email address appeared as an attachment in the case concerning David Sánchez. The judge is investigating the opening of three confidential investigations, referred to as IR, conducted by UCO agents of the National Police Corps, one of which followed the leak of Begoña Gómez’s email address, which appeared as an attachment in intercepted communications by the UCO within the legal proceedings against David Sánchez, brother of the Prime Minister. Through these procedures, the judge is looking into whether these and other two confidential investigations aimed to pressure the agents of the corps who at that time were conducting several investigations relating to the PSOE and the government. The Office of the State Attorney explained to the judge that it was deemed necessary and appropriate to communicate what had been done, but added that neither the beginning nor the end of these investigations was communicated to the director general, since she was not involved in their creation and had no prior participation or knowledge of their origin or processing. They were internal matters resolved by the DAO itself with the officials ordered to initiate them. Only in one case, where the investigated facts were denounced in the Internal Affairs Service, was an account given.