The State Attorney General moves his case and asks the Supreme Court that Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, right-hand man of Isabel Díaz Ayuso in the Community of Madrid, testify as a witness in the case for revealing secrets which is the subject of an investigation against him. The Public Prosecutor’s Office, as reported by La Vanguardia and elDiario.es was able to confirm, requested this procedure from Judge Ángel Hurtado, explaining that there are “indications” that the chief of staff of the President of Madrid has accepted “part of the content of the emails” in which the defense of Alberto González Amador proposed a pact to the prosecution for his case of admitted double taxation fraud.
The Supreme Court is investigating whether the Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, or Madrid Provincial Prosecutor, Pilar Rodríguez, disclosed this email exchange to the press last March. The case first analyzed whether a statement by the prosecution about the case revealed secrets, but the High Court ruled out this possibility, pointing in another direction: the statement did not reveal secrets because several media outlets had already everything published, and it aims to find out if the attorney general is behind this leak.
The first step, after placing the case under partial secrecy, was seven months of communications on the attorney general’s cell phone, tablet and computer. It is now Álvaro García Ortiz who wants the investigating judge to explore another possibility: that the first leaker of these emails, at least in part, is Miguel Ángel Rodríguez.
The newspaper El Mundo was the first to publish, last March, that there had been conversations between Ayuso’s partner and the prosecution to seek an agreement in their case of double taxation fraud revealed by elDiario.es . According to this information, the offer of agreement came from the public prosecutor’s office and the prosecution decided to publish a statement early the next morning detailing the reality of these conversations.
That same night, as reported by this newspaper, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez himself sent to various journalists the contents of an email sent by the prosecutor Julián Salto to the lawyer of Alberto González Amador, adding a lie published by several media: that this pact had been stopped by the highest levels of the public prosecutor. The first information from El Mundo cites the complete list of emails and cites defense sources of Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s partner.
The public prosecutor explains that “the first revelation of secrets was made by Miguel Ángel Rodríguez”, also accusing him of having spread a “hoax”. “He spread blatantly false information,” he adds. It also solicits testimony from professionals belonging to a maximum of seven media outlets that have published information on the subject.
Throughout the process, the prosecution defended that its first statement did not reveal details that were secret or had not yet been published in the media. With these testimonies from journalists, he now adds, he seeks to elucidate whether the leak occurred before the attorney general received these emails in his personal mail when he requested them from prosecutor Julián Salto to prepare the statement.
