The association of prosecutors that exercises the popular accusation against the Attorney General in the investigation for revealing secrets asked the Supreme Court not to limit its investigation to five days in March and to analyze all related emails and messages to the case and intercepted. the last seven months. The Professional and Independent Association of Prosecutors, represented in the Fiscal Council, also asked Judge Ángel Hurtado to expand the case several weeks before the alleged leak of emails that Alberto González Amador’s defense exchanged with the prosecution to obtain a pact in his case of admission of double taxation fraud.
Agents from the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard spent up to ten hours in the office of the Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, on October 30. Judge Hurtado’s order, after placing the case under summary secrecy, was to intervene in all his emails, WhatsApp messages and communications since last March 8 as part of the investigation to find out if it was he who had leaked the emails to the press. defense of Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s partner. Subsequently, the magistrate explained to the Civil Guard that his analysis had to be limited to messages strictly related to the case between the 8th and 14th of March.
Hurtado’s last measure was to partially lift the secrecy that weighed on this case concerning the revelation of secrets and communicated this complete file to the parties, after the Prosecutor’s Office had to appeal the indiscriminate search, without knowing the arguments of the magistrate to intervene in the matter. communications from the Attorney General. A new call now comes from the APIF, an association of prosecutors who exercise public prosecution, asking the judge to do the opposite: extend the analysis to all intercepted communications.
The document, signed by lawyers Juan Antonio Frago and Verónica Suárez, requests that the case go back even further in the calendar and analyzes the events that occurred since February 20 of this year, the date on which the prosecution sent the complaint against the courts to court Alberto González Amador for tax evasion and falsification of documents. From that moment, says this association, “there may be prior communications which pass through the telephones of the two authorized persons, warning that a person of media caliber being the boyfriend of the regional president could have a procedure and, where applicable, the existence of the document subsequently disclosed.
This association also understands that the analysis of the Attorney General’s messages should not end on March 14, 2024 but should cover all the material seized by the UCO during ten hours of intervention at the headquarters of the prosecutor’s office on Rue Fortuny in Madrid. “It cannot be excluded that previous communications appear to be asking, selling or ceding the favor of leaking,” he says. They not only want to know about García Ortiz’s possible conversations with journalists, but also with his number two in the public prosecutor’s office, María Ángeles Sánchez Conde. “Conversations between the state attorney general and the Supreme Court lieutenant prosecutor, now the prosecutor handling this case, could be momentous.”
The last step taken by Judge Hurtado was to partially lift the secrecy of the summary so that the parties can fully understand the orders issued so far and be able to respond to the appeal presented by the prosecution against the search order. A sequence which implies that the Public Prosecutor’s Office had to appeal the recording without knowing the judge’s arguments, but that the parties now know these arguments to oppose their appeal.
“It is necessary to investigate any communication related to the crime investigated, to the leak of the criminal compliance proposal, without time limitation, with regard to the seized terminals”, rules the appeal presented by APIF.
