The State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, met on Thursday with the Council of Prosecutors, his main advisory body, to explain the decision to continue leading the institution after the Supreme Court opened a trial against him for revealing secrets after the affair. complaint from commission agent Alberto González Amador, associate of Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
In a first intervention that lasted less than half an hour, García Ortiz denied having leaked emails and declared himself convinced that remaining in his position was best for the institution. Of the thirty participants, eight asked him to resign, according to sources consulted by elDiario.es. This is why it received majority support for its continuation.
The Supreme Court decided on Wednesday to open criminal proceedings against the Attorney General for the leak of emails in which González Amador admitted to having defrauded more than 350,000 euros. For the first time in history, a court will investigate the management of the Prosecutor’s Office for the crime of revealing secrets and will do so for a case that began with a hoax from the cell phone of Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, right-hand man of the president of the Community from Madrid.
Following the High Court’s decision, García Ortiz announced that he would not resign and summoned the main bodies of the race to explain his decision and listen to their comments. 31 of its 35 members attended this college of prosecutors. Eight of them asked him to leave his position to preserve the image of the institution. Among these critical voices are those of the four prosecutors in the trial: Javier Zaragoza, Consuelo Madrigal, Fidel Cadena and Jaime Moreno. They also defended the resignation of the prosecutor in charge of computer crimes, Elvira Tejada; and Supreme Court prosecutors Antonio Narváez, José Javier Huete and José Miguel de la Rosa.
Among the supporters of the prosecutors in the process is that of María José Segarra, who was the first attorney general appointed by the government of Pedro Sánchez and is a member of the Progressive Union of Prosecutors (UPF), an association to which the currently one of them was affiliated with the Attorney General until his appointment. Also that of the chief anti-corruption prosecutor Alejandro Luzón.
