The judge of the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court Ángel Hurtado, appointed instructor of the case opened to the Attorney General for an alleged crime of disclosure of confidential data relating to the partner of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, issued this Friday a resolution for rectify the analysis period of the information entered from Álvaro García Ortiz last October 30.
That day, Hurtado authorized agents of the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard to search the Attorney General’s office and access and copy all the information contained in all its electronic devices (cell phones, tablets, computers…). both in messages, emails or applications such as Whatsapp, without any type of limitation and without being strictly linked to the subject of the dispute.
This is taking shape in the investigation into who or who leaked to the press, presumably on the night of March 13, emails that the defense of businessman Alberto González Amador sent to the Madrid Public Prosecutor’s Office for Economic Crimes . In these emails, it was admitted that the partner of the Madrid president had committed two tax offenses and proposed 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 who investigated González Amador the email chain exchanged with the businessman’s defense.
This request was due to the fact that the Attorney General’s Office wanted to deny in a press release, which was actually distributed the next day, the hoaxes published on the night of March 13 by El Mundo and other media – citing the “sources of defense” of González. Amador – in the sense that it was the Prosecutor’s Office that proposed the compliance agreement, although it later withdrew it to take the businessman to court.
In the resolution in which Hurtado ordered on October 30 the unusual seizure of all information stored on all devices used by the Attorney General, the Supreme Court instructor stated verbatim that “with regard to the servers, email services (in the period from March 8, 2024 until the materialization of this diligence), social networks and other repositories, the deletion of email accounts, profiles on social networks or other information repositories managed by the persons investigated is permitted.
Nine days later, the magistrate issued a new resolution, known to EL ESPAÑOL, in which he recognized that “limiting the expert analysis of the elements involved to the facts and people being investigated, is limited to dates covering March 8 to 14, 2024both days included.
Hurtado explains that “once registration is completed at both head offices [la Fiscalía General del Estado y la Fiscalía Provincial de Madrid] and recounted the material seized and the dates until it was seized, It is necessary to differentiate two aspects“, one of them, that linked to the seizure of the material and another the analysis and the period during which the expertise, as such, must focus on this material.”
This differentiation, according to the judge, emerged “from the content of the two orders of October 30, 2024 which consented to this entry and search at the headquarters of the two public prosecutors”, although it is not specified in the operative part.
“The intervention of the equipment was necessary”, he adds, “but the order itself already indicates that the expertise will be limited to emails and messages which could be linked to the events subject to this investigation” .
“Information unrelated to the facts”
“Certainly,” Hurtado admits, “specific periods of time were not limitedwhile it seems, in view of what is recorded in the report drawn up in this regard, that In the material that intervened, there could be information unrelated to these events to investigate, but with the mention included in the said order, it was already excluded that we would analyze everything that went beyond the dates on which the events occurred.
Despite this decision, Hurtado considered it “appropriate to emphasize that the dates related to the events under investigation are reflected in said documents and were those to which the analysis of the seized material was limited, in principle, between the March 8 and 14. , 2024”.
The resolution does not explain why it was necessary to seize all the information stored on the devices of the Attorney General and the Attorney General of Madrid for more than seven months when the analysis will focus on only seven days.
