The general secretary of the PSOE of Madrid, Juan Lobatocertified before a notary that the right arm of the current minister of Óscar López, Pilar Sánchez Acera, disclosed the document containing the alleged confessions of the boyfriend of the president of the Community of Madrid, Alberto González Amador, so that he could use it in a monitoring session of the regional leader in plenary session, as revealed by ABC.
The purpose of the leak was for Lobato to use the document for political purposes on the morning of March 14. At that time, the media had already learned that González Amador had admitted the tax offenses before the public prosecutor’s office. However, the document had not yet been published confidential sent by González Amador’s lawyer to the prosecutor in charge of the case.
According to the exclusive released by ABC, at 8 a.m.Sánchez Acera sent Lobato the document containing González Amador’s confession so that he could present it to the Assembly.
Faced with his refusal, as this newspaper learned, Óscar López’s chief of staff told him that she would immediately forward it to Angélica Rubio, “the journalist who mentioned Judge Peinado’s two DNIs.” Rubio ran “elplural.com”, a media outlet linked to the PSOE, which effectively would end up publishing this confidential document at 9:06 a.m.. on March 14 and would tweet it a few minutes later.
Therefore, in the succession of events with which Juan Lobato is now trying to protect himself, it is not possible that he became aware of this document through the media, since elplural.com published it. an hour after the conversation with the right hand of Óscar López.
It turns out that Angélica Rubio has now been placed by the PSOE on the board of directors of RTVE.
Below we detail the timeline the information followed until this document was made public.
March 13
9:29 p.m.
Make the pact
Although the affair broke out a day earlier, when ‘eldiario.es’ revealed that Díaz Ayuso’s partner had been denounced for the commission of several crimes, on March 13 the newspaper ‘El Mundo’ published that the prosecution of Madrid had “offered a deal” to Alberto González Amador in exchange for his guilty plea for alleged tax fraud of 350,000 euros.
March 13
10:10 p.m.
‘La Sexta’ reports on the offer
That same March 13, less than an hour later, ‘La Sexta’ contradicted the newspaper ‘El Mundo’ and reported that it was González Amador’s lawyer, Carlos Neira, who proposed a compliant agreement to the prosecutor’s office, and not the other way around. .
March 13
11:51 p.m.
Quoted extracts from the “letter” are published
Around midnight, ‘Cadena Ser’ expands on this information and reveals that the lawyer proposed an agreement to the prosecution after having “fully” admitted the facts and declared that “two crimes were certainly committed against the Public Treasury”. The media quotes excerpts from the email that Neira sends to the Prosecutor’s Office, which reads: “After studying the file, and in agreement with Alberto González, I inform you that the firm desire of this party is to obtain compliance criminal, by fully recognizing the facts (“Certainly two offenses were committed against the Public Treasury) and by proceeding to repair the damage caused by full payment of the fee and late payment interest to the AEAT.”
March 14
08:00
The document reaches Lobato
However, although this same information is published in different media, arising from lawyer-prosecutor communication, none of them reproduces the confidential document, for the leak of which the State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, is accused. This is the document – a photograph of the confession sent by González Amador’s lawyer to the prosecutor of the case – that the chief of staff of Óscar López, then chief of staff of Pedro Sánchez, sent to the leader of the PSOE. M for what will be screened in the Madrid theater on the morning of March 14.
March 14
08:00
The leader of the PSOE in Madrid refuses
It was at the same time, early in the morning of March 14, that Juan Lobato refused to broadcast this communication between lawyer and prosecutor, which is subject to secrecy. Óscar López’s right-hand man – in turn, Pedro Sánchez’s right-hand man – then decides to disclose the document to “elplural.com”, a digital newspaper linked to the government. Before this happened, at 7:49 a.m., the media did not yet have the written word and was limited to echoing what had been published a few hours earlier by “La Sexta”.
March 14
09.06
‘El Plural’ broadcasts the letter
It was not until more than an hour later that this newspaper, at 9:06 a.m., published the document. The title is as follows: “Here is the letter from Ayuso’s boyfriend’s lawyer requesting approval from the prosecution. » In the news, the newspaper finally publishes an image with the lawyer’s letter.
That is, the document was made public after Óscar López’s chief of staff told Lobato not to worry, that she would forward it to “Angélica Rubio, the journalist who discovered the two DNIs of Judge Peinado”; who at the time directed “elplural.com” and who, months later, would be placed by the PSOE on the board of directors of RTVE.
March 14
11.27
‘El País’ accesses the document a few hours later
This morning of March 14, ‘El País’ published the news at 7:14 a.m. citing “sources close to the Public Ministry”, which show that at that time the information was not based on the physical document, which did not was not included on the page. . ‘El País’ website until more than four hours later, at 11:27. That is to say three hours after Óscar López’s chief of staff proposed it to Juan Lobato.