The State Public Prosecutor’s Office, which assumed the defense of the Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, in the case of revelation of secrets opened before the Supreme Court, asked the investigating judge, Ángel Hurtado, to summon him for testify. Miguel Angel Rodríguezchief of staff of Madrid’s president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
Hurtado is investigating García Ortiz and the Attorney General of Madrid, Pilar Rodríguez, for the alleged leak, on the night of March 13, of electronic messages that the defense of businessman Alberto González Amador, associate of Díaz Ayuso, allegedly sent to the Madrid Public Prosecutor’s Office for economic crimes. Desk. In these emails, it was admitted that González Amador had committed two tax crimes and offered to reach an agreement for a corresponding sentence.
As the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court explained when opening the case, the suspicions that this leak could have come from the Attorney General or the Attorney General of Madrid, Pilar Rodríguez, are due to the fact that both asked the prosecutor on the night of March 13, González Amador investigated the email chain exchanged with the businessman’s defense.
This request was due to the fact that the general prosecutor’s office wanted to deny in a press release, which was actually distributed the next day, the false information published on the night of March 13 by The world and other media – citing González Amador’s “defense sources” – in the sense that it was the prosecution that proposed the deal, although it later withdrew it to bring the man court cases.
The public prosecutor asked the instructor to call the journalists of the eight media outlets that published, partially or in full, the emails between González Amador’s defense and the economic crimes prosecutor on the night of March 13 and in the early hours of next day, before the publication of the prosecutor’s note.
According to judicial sources, the Attorney General’s defense wants to question them about the time they had access to the emails to determine whether it was before or after their receipt by García Ortiz and Rodríguez.
He also requested that Miguel Ángel Rodríguez testify before the higher court (for allegedly not having an obligation of confidentiality regarding these emails). On the night of March 13, Ayuso’s chief of staff posted a message on X stating: “Summary of today’s madness: The prosecution offers an agreement to Mr. González by email Before he can answer, the prosecution itself says that he received orders “from above” that there would be no agreement and then they would go to trial.”
Summary of the madness of the day: the prosecution offers an agreement by email to Mr. González; Before he can respond, the same prosecutor’s office claims that he received orders “from above” so that there would be no agreement and then they would go to trial.
– MAR (@marodriguezb) March 13, 2024
This message was published before García Ortiz and Rodríguez had access to the emails whose disclosure is under investigation.
