The lawyer of Alberto González Amador, friend of the President of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, opposed the appeal presented by the Public Prosecutor’s Office against the opening of the trial in which the Supreme Court (TS) is investigating the Attorney General of the State, Álvaro García. Ortiz, and the Attorney General of the Province of Madrid, Pilar Rodríguez, for allegations revelation of secrets, considering that there are sufficient reasons to “exhaust” the investigations.
In a writing to which Europa Press had access, González Amador responds to the appeal made by the State Legal Services in defense of Rodríguez, in which they not only requested the archiving of the case, but also emphasized that THE first media which echoes the exchange of emails between Díaz Ayuso’s partner and the prosecution, emphasizing that “they obtain the information from sources close to the defense”.
Faced with this, the legal representation of González Amador highlights the “unanimous need to continue and complete the investigation events carried out by Pilar Rodríguez and Álvaro García Ortiz who, since, for the moment, March 7, 2024, “have an inseparable link that prevents the opening of separate trials”.
In this sense, it indicates that “since the events, up to a total of twelve magistrates (from the Court of Instruction number 28 of Madrid up to the Supreme Court itself), unanimously, have considered in their different resolutions the need to investigate the events that are the subject of the complaint involving Pilar Rodríguez.”
The writing makes a chronology of events until arriving at the moment when the content of these ’emails’, which reflects the negotiations between the defense of González Amador and the prosecutor in the case where he is under investigation for tax crimes, Julián Salto, to reach an agreement, was leaked to the media on the night of March 13.
González Amador focuses on March 7, when Rodríguez “went directly to Salto to email him the complaint” filed against Díaz Ayuso’s partner by the Public Prosecutor’s Office for tax crimes. According to the order with which the TS opened a case against García Ortiz, Salto said that on March 8, Rodríguez informed him that the person under investigation in this case was the boyfriend of the regional president and “had already requested a copy of the complaint.” approved.” .
From that moment on, assures González Amador’s lawyer, “he stopped being treated as an anonymous citizen by Rodríguez and García Ortiz and began to suffer the treatment associated with being the ‘partner of the president of the Community of Madrid”. that all information, documentation, personal data and reserved content resulting from the exercise of the public service pre-trial attributed to the public prosecutor, was the subject of public disclosure.
He emphasizes that, a few days later, more precisely on March 11, “one day before any operation of judicial distribution“, a journalist has already contacted González Amador “ordering him to demonstrate because the news would be published the next day.”
Already on the night of March 13, when the first publication on the partial content of these emails appeared, González Amador’s lawyer points out that, only “an hour and a half” after Rodríguez requested these ‘e- emails’ to Salto and forwarded them in turn to García Ortiz, the full content has appeared in other media.
The Attorney General “remained hidden”
As for the State Attorney General, he accuses him of having tried to “paralyze the investigations of the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid (TSJM)”, affirming that “the only other interest expressed by García Ortiz was to maintain his mandate”. hierarchical superior status of María Ángeles Sánchez Conde (lieutenant of the prosecutor of the TS) and to her as responsible for the intervention in the current procedure.”
He is also accused of having allowed Rodríguez to “lie” during the meeting that took place on March 15 with the president of the General Council of Lawyers at the time, Victoria Ortega, and the dean of the Illustrious College of Lawyers from Madrid, Eugenio Ribón, in order to “try to achieve a sort of institutional statement common on the neutrality of their behavior”, which they rejected.
And this, says González Amador, because during this meeting, Rodríguez “recognized that she, on behalf of the Madrid Provincial Prosecutor’s Office, was the author and manager of the press release”, “although she now claims that this is not the case”, which she did “out of institutional loyalty”, because, if everything she declared judicially was known at that time At that time (…), the effect For the image of the Office of the Prosecutor, it could be devastating. »
Díaz Ayuso’s partner adds that García Ortiz “remained hidden and did not communicate his hardware connection with the events of 07/03/2024 to 11/06/2024″, only doing so when the TSJM agreed to summon the main prosecutor of the Community of Madrid, Adriana Lastra.
However, he appreciates an “absolute lack of collaboration with the educational activity” on the part of Rodríguez and García Ortiz, going so far as to speak of “the obstruction of it«.
Cause to the Supreme Court
It should be remembered that on October 16, the Superior Court opened a trial against García Ortiz, based on the complaints filedamong others, by González Amador, and the reasoned presentation of the TSJM.
González Amador brought the case to court through a note published on March 14 by the prosecutor’s office in which the email cross-referencing between his lawyer and Salto.
The Supreme Court, however, did not see a crime in the press release, but instead focused on the previous leaks about these “emails” addressed to the media.