{"id":66245,"date":"2026-07-17T19:10:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=66245"},"modified":"2026-07-19T18:37:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T16:37:56","slug":"the-psoes-sewers-and-its-role-in-the-erasing-of-russian-interference-in-catalonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/07\/17\/the-psoes-sewers-and-its-role-in-the-erasing-of-russian-interference-in-catalonia\/","title":{"rendered":"The PSOE's sewers and its role in the erasing of Russian interference in Catalonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spain is seeing more and more corruption scandals involving the PSOE come to light, some of them related to its \"sewers\".<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/11\/30\/pedro-sanchezs-government-tries-to-delete-the-russian-plot-of-the-2017-coup-in-catalonia\/\">Pedro S\u00e1nchez's government tries to delete the Russian plot of the 2017 coup in Catalonia<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/05\/10\/the-spanish-intelligence-service-beheaded-to-satisfy-putins-puppets-in-spain\/\">The Spanish intelligence service, beheaded to satisfy Putin's puppets in Spain<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>A Civil Guard commander files a lawsuit against the socialist sewers<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The term \"sewers\" refers to the actions of PSOE members in the Leire D\u00edez case, in which the courts are investigating <strong>a scheme involving the obtaining of classified information, obstruction of justice, and influence peddling<\/strong>. This scheme aimed to hinder judicial investigations into socialist corruption and certain cases that were not to the government's liking. Today, Libertad Digital reports that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertaddigital.com\/espana\/2026-07-17\/el-comandante-purgado-por-investigar-el-lazo-de-puigdemont-y-putin-se-persona-contra-la-cloaca-7437349\/\" target=\"_blank\">a Civil Guard commander who was purged for investigating the Puigdemont and Putin ribbon has filed a lawsuit against this sewer.<\/a> The commander in question is Colonel Daniel Baena, about whom the aforementioned media outlet states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"<strong>He was a lieutenant colonel in the Civil Guard when he investigated the connections between Puigdemont and Putin.<\/strong> Between Junts and Russia at the height of the separatist coup. His reward came immediately: <strong>a full-blown separatist attack and the kick in the teeth to stop his investigation<\/strong>.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><big>That commander investigated Russian interference in Catalonia during the 2017 coup<\/big><\/p>\n<p>On June 4, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertaddigital.com\/espana\/2026-06-04\/la-libreta-azul-de-leire-diez-la-uco-intervino-sus-anotaciones-con-todos-los-objetivos-de-las-cloaca-del-psoe-7414910\/\" target=\"_blank\">Libertad Digital<\/a> reported that Baena was one of Leire D\u00edez's targets, along with other Civil Guard officers whose investigative work was proving inconvenient for the Socialists. Colonel Baena, now a colonel, states in a document addressed to the courts that he <em>\"carried out functions of directing judicial investigations related to <strong>the Catalan independentist process and its potential international connections, including the so-called Voloh case<\/strong>, which constituted a highly relevant criminal investigation.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Voloh case was opened by the Civil Guard in 2020<\/strong> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertaddigital.com\/temas\/caso-voloh\/\" target=\"_blank\">brought to light contacts between the Catalan government and representatives of Putin's dictatorship<\/a>. In relation to this investigation, the now deceased Fernando L\u00e1zaro published an article in El Mundo on October 28, 2020, indicating that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elmundo.es\/cataluna\/2020\/10\/28\/5f9923fbfdddffb03c8b478c.html\" target=\"_blank\">those arrested in the case boasted that Russia offered 10,000 soldiers and financial aid to Catalan separatism<\/a< in the context of the separatist coup perpetrated in Catalonia on October 1, 2017. L\u00e1zaro stated in that article:\n\n\n\n<blockquote><em>\"<strong>Those arrested in the so-called Operation Volhov are believed to be part of a perfectly organized network<\/strong>, according to sources in the Civil Guard, who <strong>also link these businessmen to Junts per Catalunya and ERC<\/strong>. They are also investigating whether funds were diverted from this network of businessmen to Belgium for <strong>the upkeep of former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont<\/strong>.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><big>The government's decapitation of the CNI in relation to that matter<\/big><\/p>\n<p>At that time, the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) was already a parliamentary partner of the PSOE, and <strong>this issue became a problem for Pedro S\u00e1nchez's government<\/strong>. What happened a few months later foreshadowed what would come a few years later. In May 2022, instead of ordering the National Intelligence Center (CNI) to thoroughly investigate this Russian interference in Spain, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/05\/10\/the-spanish-intelligence-service-beheaded-to-satisfy-putins-puppets-in-spain\/\">Pedro S\u00e1nchez decapitated the CNI to appease the separatists<\/a>. The most astonishing thing is that this controversial decision was made by the government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elperiodico.com\/es\/politica\/20220509\/oficina-puigdemont-admite-contactos-enviado-13631599\" target=\"_blank\">the day after Puigdemont himself admitted to these contacts with Russia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thus continued an operation by the socialist leadership to grant impunity to the perpetrators of the 2017 coup, an operation already initiated in 2021 with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/06\/13\/massive-demonstration-against-the-pardons-of-the-government-of-spain-to-coup-leaders\/\">the pardons granted by the government to the coup plotters<\/a> despite their showing no remorse. <strong>The operation continued with the amnesty granted by S\u00e1nchez to the coup plotters<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/01\/29\/what-sanchez-already-knew-about-the-russian-plot-when-he-offered-amnesty-to-puigdemont\/\">after a judge opened the door to accusing Puigdemont of treason<\/a> for those contacts with Putin's dictatorship prior to the 2017 coup.<\/p>\n<p><big>The erasure of Russian interference in Catalonia through amnesty for separatists<\/big><\/p>\n<p><strong>The S\u00e1nchez government used the amnesty for its separatist allies to erase all traces of that Russian plot<\/strong>, an operation that was openly confirmed in November 2024 when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/11\/30\/pedro-sanchezs-government-tries-to-delete-the-russian-plot-of-the-2017-coup-in-catalonia\/\">the Minister of Justice, F\u00e9lix Bola\u00f1os, stated: <em>\"there has been no Russian plot in support of Catalan separatism\"<\/em><\/a>. His statement openly contradicted the evidence found by the Civil Guard. <strong>The minister's argument was that, adhering to judicial processes, \"one cannot speak\" of the existence of such a plot<\/strong>, a display of colossal cynicism, since judicial investigations had already revealed this interference. <strong>If the courts stopped investigating it, it was because the amnesty approved by the government blocked any further investigation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With that shameful operation, <strong>S\u00e1nchez did Putin's tentacles in Spain a great favor<\/strong>, leaving them in the shadows and granting them absolute impunity under his amnesty law. <strong>Now we know that one of the Civil Guard commanders who investigated that Russian plot was a target of the socialist sewers<\/strong>, so the courts may have to address this issue once again, much to the chagrin of S\u00e1nchez's government, which committed <strong>a tremendous infamy to cover up a Russian attempt to destabilize Spain and undermine its national unity<\/strong>. One has to wonder if those who should now be accused of treason are those who carried out that operation to conceal Russian interference in Catalonia, starting with S\u00e1nchez himself.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: Efe.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain is seeing more and more corruption scandals involving the PSOE come to light, some of them related to its \u00absewers\u00bb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10398],"tags":[18210,9498,10703,455,27440,382,15275,11339,24547,693,2721,10731,10796,11462],"class_list":["post-66245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spain","tag-bolshevik-coup-detat-of-1917","tag-carles-puigdemont","tag-catalonia","tag-centro-nacional-de-inteligencia-cni","tag-daniel-baena","tag-erc","tag-felix-bolanos","tag-junts-per-catalunya","tag-leire-diez","tag-psoe","tag-pedro-sanchez-castejon","tag-russia","tag-socialism","tag-spain"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-02 06:54:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}