An hour and a half of interrogation from which he still emerged as a witness, after handing over his own cell phone to the judge. This is the summary of declaration ofJuan Lobato before the Supreme Court this Friday, as part of the investigation that Judge Ángel Hurtado orders against the State Attorney General, Álvaro Garcia Ortizfor allegedly revealing secrets in the tax fraud case of Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s boyfriend.
The former leader of the PSOE from Madrid began making a statement at 10:15 a.m. and He didn’t want to make any statements to the press in the High Court, where delivered the notarial deed and mobile messages in which a Moncloa official sent him the confessions of Ayuso’s partner, as well as your own cell phone. Even if it was possible that he could be charged, the legal sources present in this statement confirm to laSexta that continues with witness status.
During his statement, Lobato responded to Judge Hurtado and the Deputy Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, María Ángeles Sánchez Conde. Also present in the room were two state lawyers – as defenders of those accused, the Attorney General and the Provincial Prosecutor of Madrid -, the popular accusers and the lawyer of the boyfriend of Ayuso’s partner, Alberto González Amador.
At the start of the week, the magistrate summoned Lobato to testify as a witness in the case against him Attorney General for allegedly revealing secrets in a tax fraud case against the Ayuso’s boyfriendAlberto González Amador, after ‘ABC’ published that the filtration from the email his defense sent to the prosecutor in the case recognize crimescame directly from Moncloa.
The newspaper also reported that the presidency tried to involve Lobato by sending him this information so that he could use it to confront Ayuso in the Madrid Assembly and that he I took the messages in front of a notary in which the confessions were sent to him. His testimony and these messages, including notarial deed the judge had demanded, they are key to the direction the cause may takebecause they can assume that the investigation goes beyond the scope of the prosecution and directly affects Moncloa.
Lobato’s loneliness
Lobato himself admitted in recent days to having deposited the WhatsApp conversation he had with a notary. Pilar Sánchez Acera -chief of staff of Óscar López when the current minister headed the cabinet of Pedro Sánchez-, in which she sent him an image of this email. However, according to his version, he was told that came from the press.
His decision to go to a notary, however, triggered a crisis with Ferraz and Moncloa which culminated on Wednesday in his resignation as leader of the PSOE of Madrid and this Friday this was reflected in an image of absolute solitude when he reached the Supremecuriously, wearing a folder with party logo.
