“Nunca jamás”. Estas dos palabras han sido las más repetidas por la directora general de la Guardia Civil, Mercedes González, durante su comparecencia este martes en la Comisión de Interior del Senado para dar cuenta de sus encuentros con la exmilitante socialista Leire Díez, presunta cabecilla de la trama gestada para supuestamente entorpecer investigaciones policiales y judiciales que afectaban al Gobierno. González ha utilizado ambas palabras para negar de manera rotunda y reiterada que hubiera intentado interferir en las pesquisas de la Unidad Central Operativa (UCO) que afectan al PSOE y al entorno de Pedro Sánchez. “No he participado jamás, nunca, en ninguna trama o conspiración contra la UCO [...]; ni influenciada por Leire Díez ni por ninguna otra persona”, ha afirmado.
Esta última afirmación supone, de hecho, un desmentido al contenido de los informes elaborados por los agentes, en los que se infiere que en los encuentros que ambos mantuvieron ―tres, según la UCO; dos, según ella, que no recuerda el tercero― la exmilitante socialista “habría conseguido instigar que esta última [González] iniciara actuaciones administrativas contra la Unidad Central Operativa” para condicionar sus pesquisas contra el Gobierno. Cuando la senadora de Vox, Paloma Gómez, le ha preguntado si daba “credibilidad” a los atestados de la Guardia Civil que afirman esto, González se ha limitado a decir que los “respeta” y pedir “prudencia” a la hora de leerlos, “porque solo apunta indicios que ahora debe dirimir la autoridad judicial”. La directora, a quien el ministro Fernando Grande-Marlaska y Pedro Sánchez han mostrado su apoyo, ha rechazado dimitir como le han pedido el PP y Vox.
La comparecencia de González en el Senado se ha producido un día después de que trascendiera públicamente un nuevo informe de la UCO sobre la supuesta trama de Leire Díez, en el que se insiste en los contactos que la máxima responsable de la Guardia Civil mantuvo con la ahora exmilitante socialista, celebrados los días 30 de septiembre y 20 de diciembre de 2024 y el 2 de abril de 2025, una vez estaba ya al frente del instituto armado. En su primera intervención, la directora del instituto armado ha reconocido la existencia de la primera y la tercera de estas reuniones, pero ha puesto en duda que se hubiera producido la segunda, ya que ese día y a esa hora ella estaba reunida en la sede de la Dirección General.
En su relato, González ha reiterado el relato que plasmó en una nota de prensa el pasado 4 de junio, cuando detalló que conoció a Díez cuando esta estaba en Correos y ella al frente de la Delegación del Gobierno en Madrid, y que aquellos primeros contactos fueron por mensajes de móvil. Su primer encuentro en persona fue el del 30 de septiembre de 2024 en una cafetería cercana a la sede de la dirección general ―la máxima responsable de la Guardia Civil insiste desde hace semanas que nunca se encontraron en su despacho oficial―, pero que fue corto, “no más de lo que dura un café”, y que en el mismo no se abordó ningún tema “concreto” y, mucho menos, una supuesta petición de interferencia en investigaciones en marcha de la UCO.
Sobre el tercer encuentro, ha dicho que Díez le planteó la posibilidad de restituir en su puesto al comandante Rubén Villalba, quien se encuentra imputado por corrupción en la causa que se sigue en la Audiencia Nacional contra Koldo García, antiguo asesor del exministro José Luis Ábalos, y el empresario Víctor de Aldama. González ha vuelto a incidir en que entonces cortó la conversación y le dijo a su interlocutora que lo que le pedía era imposible. “Desde entonces, jamás volví a verla”, ha añadido.
El último informe de la UCO apunta a que, pese al fin de los encuentros en persona tras aquella petición, sí hubo posteriormente contactos entre González y Díez en forma de mensajes. En este sentido, el documento policial pone el foco en un hecho producido el 11 de mayo siguiente: en el chat de WhatsApp entre ambas se activó el borrado automático de mensajes, que los agentes interpretan como “compatible con que se haya eliminado una conversación previa e iniciado una nueva”. En el Senado, González no ha explicado el porqué de la puesta en marcha del sistema automático de eliminación de mensajes. Fuentes de su entorno apuntan a que Díez le siguió enviando mensajes de WhatsApp, pero que ella ya no respondió a los mismos.
González también ha abordado la apertura de tres informaciones reservadas (investigaciones internas que pueden desembocar en la apertura de un expediente disciplinario) a la UCO por supuestas filtraciones a la prensa de datos incluidos en causas que afectaban al Ejecutivo. La primera, de noviembre de 2024, estaba relacionada con la causa del hermano del presidente del Gobierno y la aparición en un documento de la dirección de correo electrónico de Begoña Gómez, esposa de Pedro Sánchez; otra en mayo de 2025, sobre la filtración de unos mensajes de WhatsApp de las causas en las que están implicados el exministro J…
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- government Mercedes González, Director General of the Guardia Civil
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