Supreme Court Justice Ángel Hurtado asked the Attorney General to appoint a lawyer and a notary to be able to defend himself in an investigation into the secrets revelation case. The investigating judge also explains that he will later decide on the procedures that the accusations requested, including the intervention of his personal messaging service.
This is the first step by Judge Ángel Hurtado after the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court decided to open criminal proceedings against the Attorney General and to investigate whether Álvaro García Ortiz intervened in the alleged leak of emails that the defense of Alberto González Amador crossed with the prosecutor Julián. Salto. Initially, the case began before the Madrid Superior Court to determine whether a statement issued by the Prosecutor’s Office regarding the case had revealed confidential information, but the Supreme Court decided to redirect the proceedings to the prosecutor general due to the leak of these emails. .
The statement, with which the Madrid Public Prosecutor’s Office sought to combat the rumor that the agreement that the businessman had proposed to recognize his tax crimes and avoid prison came from the Public Prosecutor’s Office and had been arrested “from above “, was the first object of the investigation. According to Ayuso’s partner, this statement revealed confidential data from his negotiations with the prosecution which violated his right to defense. The Superior Court of Justice of Madrid never verified whether the statement reproduced data already published in the media, but summoned several prosecutors and employees of the prosecution to find out who gave the order to publish it.
The investigation did not make it possible to demonstrate the criminal nature of this statement, but it made it possible to know the moment when the Attorney General asked the prosecutor Julián Salto for the emails that he had exchanged with the lawyer of the partner of Ayuso. Information that was enough for the Supreme Court to open a new derivative and direct its investigations against Álvaro García Ortiz and the Attorney General of the province of Madrid, Pilar Rodríguez.
