The Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard appreciated a “prominent participation of the Attorney General of the State”, Álvaro Garcia Ortiz“on the events which ultimately led to the leak”, was the subject of an investigation following the complaint filed by Alberto González Amador, partner of Madrid’s president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
This is stated in the report to which ABC had access, in which the agents make a chronological account of “all communications between the Attorney General of the province, Pilar Rodríguez, with other members of the Prosecutor’s Office in relation to the events investigated. It is the analysis of what was seized on Rodríguez’s devices, the first of the procedures that were carried out and the one that leads the UCO to conclude that the Attorney General played a major role in the leak from 9:29 p.m. March 13. , when, following the publication of ‘El Mundo’ in which it was said that it was the prosecutor who had offered a deal to Alberto González Amador when it was the opposite.
It was at this point that García Ortiz “started giving orders” to collect the emails between the defense lawyer and the prosecution. The February 2 email leaked to the press and whose publication is under investigation, as well as others between the economic crimes prosecutor, Julián Salto, and González Amador’s lawyer, are sent to the Attorney General of the province and to the attorney general of the province. senior prosecutor in two emails, respectively at 9:52 p.m. and 9:54 p.m., and these two emails are forwarded to the Attorney General in two other emails respectively at 9:59 p.m. and 10:01 p.m., including the first. including the aforementioned email of 2.2.2024″.
At 11:51 p.m., Cadena Ser published the information contained in this email and also announced that “the Madrid Public Prosecutor’s Office is preparing a statement on this matter which will be published in the coming hours.” That is, the agents indicate, as of 9:59 p.m., the time when the state attorney general receives the email he needs that contains the one that was ultimately leaked, and until the leak was posted at 11:51 p.m. , there are only a very small number of people in which two circumstances occur: that they have access to all emails between the prosecution and defense counsel, including the one that was ultimately disclosed; and second, that they know not only that the OTP is preparing a “statement” but also the time frame within which it will be issued. “These two circumstances mainly only occur within the prosecutor’s office, so the leak must start there, and within this framework it can be limited to the state prosecutor’s office, the provincial prosecutor, the attorney general, the attorney general of economic crimes and the prosecutor of economic crimes, Julián Salto.
The agents add that “from this relationship of the prosecutors, the initiative and direction in the action of making the press release and, in its context, that of requesting the different emails, are supported by the Attorney General of the State, Who directly gives orders to follow up on information published in the press by the newspaper ‘El Mundo’, the resulting hierarchical subordination being appreciated in communications.”
They also emphasize that the press release is prepared by the State Public Prosecutor’s Office with data provided by the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office, “transmitting the orders through the Attorney General of the province, Pilar Rodríguez, and receiving, at in turn, the information through it. . In addition, whoever discloses the information knows, at the time of doing so, that although the note is being prepared by the General Prosecutor’s Office of the State, the channel through which it will be made public will be the Prosecutor’s Office of Madrid . And they also emphasize that there are “one or more people” within the general prosecutor’s office who “support” the general prosecutor in the tasks related to the drafting of the press release “who cannot be identified with the information available to us”. this moment” but it may be interesting to clarify the facts.
And finally, he concludes that the “reduced time frame during which the leak could have occurred may be even more limited, since the e-mail is only sent by the prosecutor Julián Salto at 9:54 p.m. and the news published on the Ser channel needs an editorial, so it is possible to locate its leak at least a few minutes before 11:51 p.m.
