Waste printed circuits boards are a major source of strategic materials such as platinum group metals since they are used for the fabrication of technological devices, such as hard drive discs, capacitors, diodes, etc. Because of the high cost of platinum, palladium and gold (> 25k€ / kg), an economic and environmental challenge is their recycling from printed circuit boards, that represent around 2% weight of electronic equipment. Hydrometallurgical treatments allow to recover these metals in solution, with a high recovery rate for a leaching liquor made of thiourea in hydrochloric acid. So as to develop an efficient recycling process from this leach liquor, one requires the speciation of these strategic metals, as well as their extraction and quantitation in the mixture. For this purpose, platinum, palladium and gold were dissolved in model leach liquors made of hydrochloric acid and thiourea at low concentration. The identification of metal complexes was determined in function of thiourea concentration (between 10 µmol/L and 10 mmol/L) by the combination of UV-Visible spectrometry, cyclic voltammetry and for the first time capillary electrophoresis. The electrokinetic method was then applied for the quantitation of trace metal analyses in leach samples from waste printed circuit boards reprocessing, demonstrating its applicability for industrializable recycling applications.