The minister’s chief of staff Oscar Lopez On March 13, he sent via WhatsApp to the leader of the Madrid socialists, Juan Lobato, the contents of the email in which Ayuso’s boyfriend, Alberto Gonzalez Amadoradmitted before the prosecution the alleged tax offenses that the businessman had committed.
The right-hand man of Óscar López (who was then Pedro Sánchez’s chief of staff at Moncloa) allegedly tried to get Lobato to release confidential communications exchanged between González Amador’s lawyer and the prosecution during a plenary session of the Assembly of Madrid, according to The newspaper reported this Sunday ABC.
However, Lobato refused to do so. According to ABCa party colleague then told him that they would send the confidential information about Ayuso’s boyfriend to journalist Angélica Rubio, who then ran the newspaper The plural (author of the hoax on the judge’s two identity cards Juan Carlos Peinado) and today placed by the PSOE on the board of directors of RTVE.
Instead, Lobato decided to deposit these messages with a notary in Madrid last October, after the Supreme Court indicted the state attorney general, Álvaro García Ortiz, for revealing secrets, as allegedly responsible of the affair. leaked confidential communications from Ayuso’s boyfriend’s lawyer.
By going to the notary, Lobato allegedly tried to record what had happened, to prevent the legal process opened against the state attorney general from being affected.
ABC published this information, after learning that Moncloa promotes the minister Óscar López as new secretary general of the PSOE of Madrid (position currently held by Juan Lobato) at the regional congress to be held at the beginning of the year.
After the news was published, Lobato issued a statement on Sunday in which he denied that the documents sent to him by Óscar López’s chief of staff, Pilar Sánchez Aceracame from the floor.
“The hoaxes and disinformation of which we are victims require clear and accredited answers,” said Lobato, “which is why I certified before a notary that neither the Madrid socialists nor Moncloa had received any information from the public prosecutor’s office regarding Ms. Ayuso’s boyfriend on the contrary, it is proven that. all the information came from the media“.
“There is no conspiracy theory“, he adds, “what exists are political tricks to try to avoid talking about the central issue which is (sic) that Ayuso’s boyfriend declares this Friday accused of two tax offenses and falsification of documents.
The Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court agreed on October 16 to open proceedings against the State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, to determine whether he had committed the crime of revealing secrets due to the public dissemination of confidential data on businessman Alberto González Amador. partner of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
Despite his indictment, García Ortiz decided to continue leading the prosecution and received support from the government.
