The State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, asked the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court (TS) to annul it for “manifest and notorious disproportion”. entry and registration which occurred in his state attorney general’s office as part of the trial against him for an alleged revelation of secrets.
According to ‘El País’ and laSexta were able to confirm, the public prosecutor appealed to the court against this decision of Ángel Luis Hurtado, the instructor of the trial opened against the attorney general and the attorney general of the province of Madrid. , Pilar Rodriguez. after the complaint of Alberto González Amador, partner of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Ayuso.
For the State judicial services, these entry and recording procedures, cloning, immersion and seizure of all devices and emails of Garcia OrtizEven if the analysis was then limited to the period from March 8 to 14, “this is certainly the greatest damage (time will tell if it is irreparable) that has been caused to the General Prosecutor’s Office of the State and the Attorney General of the Province of Madrid”.
October 30 registration
It was on October 30 that the investigating judge in charge of the case authorized “the intervention and/or copying, total or partial, of any type of computer and telematics material or support (including mobile telephony) which could have been used or which could serve as clues or evidence“.
He even authorized the seizure of García Ortiz’s cell phones, “as well as other computer/telematic devices that he could carry (tablet, laptop and others).”
He also gave the green light to the dumping of email accounts, social media profiles or other Internet information repositories managed by García Ortiz, in addition to “the information contained on the servers.”
However, he established two limits: a substantive issue, according to which the information may be linked to the crime of disclosing secrets under investigation; and another temporary, from March 8 to October 30. This period was then limited again by the instructor, specifying that it was from March 8 to 14.
At least on the same day, the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard carried out the complete cloning of two cell phones, a tablet and several computers.
This movement of the Public Ministry joins that of the lieutenant of the prosecutor of the Supreme Court (TS), María Ángeles Sánchez Conde, who highlighted in his appeal before the TS of last November 5 against the orders authorizing the searches carried out in the offices of the Attorney General and the Attorney General of the province of Madrid, which were void because they did not contain “an account of the facts considered criminal.”
It should be remembered that González Amador brought the case to court thanks to a note published on March 14 by the prosecutor’s office in which the email cross-referencing between your lawyer and the prosecutor in your tax crime case to negotiate a settlement.
The Supreme Court, however, did not find a crime in the press release, but instead focused on previous leaks regarding these “emails” to the media.
