Juan Lobato testified this Friday for an hour and a half and handed over his cell phone to Supreme Court Justice Ángel Hurtado. The magistrate wants to analyze the conversations of the former secretary general of the Madrid PSOE, including those he had with Pilar Sánchez Acera, the former chief of staff of Óscar López.
This is the conversation that Lobato registered before a notary and which he also handed over to the judge. He exchange of messages with Sánchez Acera – which laSexta was able to access – includes the email from the lawyer of Ayuso’s boyfriend in which Alberto González Amador admitted several crimes.
The conclusion of these messages between Juan Lobato and Pilar Sánchez Acera is that Moncloa had the confession of Ayuso’s boyfriend before the email is published in the media.
These messages began on the morning of March 14, a few hours before the control session at the Madrid Assembly. Sánchez Acera wanted Lobato to raise the issue with Ayuso in plenary. Therefore, at 8:30 a.m. In the morning he sent González Amador’s email without any type of watermark and with a warning: “Be careful with personal data.”
Even if some media They had already published the content of the email of Alberto González Amador’s defense admitting tax crimes, as of 8:30 a.m., no media outlet had yet published the entire email. This happened at 9:06 a.m., when the newspaper “El Plural” published this document without any deletion and without any type of watermark. In other words, Moncloa had access to the e-mail 59 minutes before a media outlet published it.
Where is the origin of the leak?
Before the newspaper published the entire email, when Sánchez Acera sent it to Lobato, the socialist responded a few minutes later with two questions: whether the email had been published in the media and how Moncloa published it. had obtained. This is precisely the key question in this case and the same one that Sánchez Acera will have to answer when she is called to testify before the Supreme Court. How did the email in which Ayuso’s friend admitted to the tax crimes reach Pilar Sánchez Acera?
As we can see in the conversation between Sánchez Acera and Lobato, she tells the socialist that he has the email because it arriveswhich has reached the media and which can be supported when I ask Ayuso the question.
There is several possibilities of how the mail arrived in the hands of Sánchez Acera. On the one hand, La Moncloa would have a leading role in this whole affair if the email had been sent by one of Sánchez Acera’s superiors. Another possibility is that it comes directly from Prosecutor’s Office. In this case, González Amador’s defense sent him to a generic email from the Madrid Economic Crimes Prosecutor’s Office, i.e. at least 16 people received this email. It was also sent to the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office, the Higher Autonomous Prosecutor’s Office and the State General Prosecutor’s Office.
The next possibility that is on the table is that the email came to him from a journalist or a media. And ultimately, the strangest possibility is that it’s the same thing defense of Gonzalez Amador who, logically, had these emails.
Lobato insists he needed to know where González Amador’s confession came from, because otherwise it might appear that the prosecution passed it on. He is a Treasury technician and knows that this could get him into trouble with the law. But the socialist He couldn’t figure out who sent him the screenshot from the email to Moncloa. Despite this, on March 14, he questioned Ayuso about his partner’s confession. In the document he showed to the Assembly, yes, he followed the recommendation made to him and hid the personal data.
In this way, after showing the conversations of this Friday in Superior Court, Lobato was able to save this witness status because the messages praise him in two senses. On the one hand, he asked where this email came from, he wanted to make sure it did not come from the prosecution. And, on the other hand, he did not display the email that Pilar Sánchez Acera had sent him, which was a photographed email and was not the original. The email he showed to the Assembly was the one that “El Plural” had published with certain erasures that hid this personal data.
After knowing Lobato’s version, one would miss that of Sánchez Acera, whose role is key to the origin of the leak. For the moment, the Superior Court has not summoned him, but it already has requests on the table. The bar which exercises the popular accusation in this case requested his appearance as an investigator. This is going to be very important because if you report that you are under investigation, you may benefit from your right not to report. In the event that he does so as a witness, he would have to answer all questions and would have an obligation to tell the truth.
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