The investigation into the leak of self-incriminating emails from the friend of Madrid President Díaz Ayuso, opened before the Superior Court of Madrid against an ordinary prosecutor and the Attorney General of Madrid, now affects the Attorney General of the State, whom the Supreme Court opened a process on October 16, and starts to climb towards Moncloa.
The revelation of the secretary general of the PSOE of Madrid, Juan Lobato, that the office of the president of the government asked him to use against Isabel Díaz Ayuso the email in which the defender of the businessman Alberto González Amador admits to having committed tax fraud opened a new legal front for Pedro Sánchez unpredictable development.
What is predictable is that the investigating judge of the Supreme Court, Ángel Hurtado, “will not look away,” say higher court sources.
Juan Lobato shows the Madrid Assembly the email that González Amador’s defender sent to the economic crimes prosecutor, recognizing the commission of two tax crimes.
Hurtado, whose first step in the investigation was to order a search of the attorney general’s office to seize all of his electronic devices, agreed immediately, without waiting to be asked, call Lobato to testify as a witness.
Next Friday, the Madrid socialist leader “You must be present providing a copy of the minutes of notarized declarations. which he apparently achieved in relation to the events,” the court ruling said.
The instructor wants to know the content of the “WhatsApps” that Lobato notarized to ensure “that they are not lost,” according to what the Madrid socialist politician said yesterday.
These messages, dated March 14, reflect a conversation between Lobato and Pilar Sánchez Acerawho was then chief of staff of Oscar Lopezat the time chief of staff to President Sánchez and now Minister of Digital Transformation.
Moncloa predicted that that day, during the plenary session of the Madrid Assembly, Lobato used against the regional president the email in which Carlos Neira, the lawyer of Ayuso’s boyfriend, admits that his client “certainly” committed two tax crimes. The lawyer had sent this email to the prosecutor for economic crimes, Julián Salto, raising the possibility of a compliance agreement that would allow Díaz Ayuso’s partner to be released from prison.
The judges are investigating the leak of the email from lawyer Neira to prosecutor Salto, because it is an alleged crime of revealing secrets which, when it harms an individual and is committed by an official or a authority, can be punished with up to four years in prison.
The procedure seemed limited to the prosecution. But Lobato’s emergence on the legal scene presents the risk that the leak(s) will spread.
Filtration
As announced yesterday ABCSánchez Acera sent Lobato “a photograph of the confession sent by González Amador’s lawyer to the prosecutor of the case” so that he could use it in the Assembly. Lobato allegedly refused and Acera then told him that he would pass it on to Angélica Rubio, then director of The plural and now appointed by the PSOE as a member of the board of directors of RTVE.
Indeed, at 9:06 a.m. March 14 The plural published an article with the title “Here is the letter from Ayuso’s boyfriend’s lawyer asking for approval from the prosecution.” It was the first media that reproduced the image of the email from Neira to prosecutor Salto.
Thus, when Lobato questioned Ayuso in the Madrid Assembly about the 10:10 a.m. That morning, she was able to disgrace the Madrid president about her partner’s behavior, based on what was published in the media. It is striking to note that the Madrid socialist leader did not exhibit a copy of the The pluralbut the incriminating email itself to González Amador.
Judicial sources indicated that it would be necessary to investigate whether Óscar López’s chief of staff sent the electronic document to Lobato and whether she did so before or after its publication in The plural. These are two key pieces of information in determining their possible involvement in the matter under investigation.
UCO Report
According to the same sources, This political derivative of the leak “takes nothing away from the attention of the Attorney General”. To begin with, if it is confirmed that an email from a lawyer addressed to a prosecutor was in the office of the President of the Government, it will be necessary to specify how it got there.
Secondly, because the report that the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard prepared on the data from the electronic devices of the Attorney General of Madrid, Pilar Rodríguez, raises a question expansion of researchso far focused on Neira’s emails to Salto.
The UCO states in this report that the complaint filed by the Prosecutor’s Office against González Amador on March 5, attributing to him two tax offenses and another of falsification of documents, “will be leaked to the press by the attorney general’s office of the State”. He refers to the appearance of this complaint in eldiario on March 12, as well as other data from the file opened to Ayuso’s boyfriend by the tax authorities.
The police report reproduces several “WhatsApps” obtained from Pilar Rodríguez’s phone.
In one of them, dated March 13, the Madrid attorney general wrote to another prosecutor “Thursday [7 de marzo] Diego asked me for the shopping [de investigación abiertas por la Fiscalía a González Amador] and I sent him everything. SO I guess after analyzing them, that’s when the publicity was made by FGE“.
In another email of the same day, Diego Villafañe, lieutenant prosecutor of the Technical Secretariat, comments to Rodríguez that “it is curious that Almudena [Lastra, fiscal superior de Madrid] She is angry… She is not offended by the other leaks.” Pilar Rodríguez responded that “Almudena was angry because the information was only leaked to one media outletas he told me.
