Magistrate Ángel Hurtado, instructor of the case opened against the Attorney General of the State and the Attorney General of the Province of Madrid for alleged revelation of secrets, rejected the request of Álvaro García Ortiz and Pilar Rodríguez to temporarily suspend analysis material seized during the entry and search procedure in their respective offices.
The instructor rejects the complaint of the persons investigated concerning immediate access to the material by third parties outside the court, “because, whatever meaning we want to give to this manifestation, it must be insisted on the fact that the material was placed in the hands of a judicial police unit, at the service of this instructor, whose work and zeal there is no reason to doubt, as judicial practice has shown us.
Hurtado also denies Ortiz and Rodríguez’s allegations regarding exceeding of the purpose of the process due to the disproportionate nature of the deadline set by the first order (from March 8 to October 30), “since in this context it was necessary to differentiate the need to collect the material in order to possibly obtain the evidence that could be lost, and the specific part of what, at the time, was considered the subject of the investigation, therefore for the avoidance of doubt, the order of November 8, 2024 was issued, which limits the March 8 to 14, 2024.
“I do not deny that among the documents intervened there may be information of another type, which at the moment is not of interest to the investigation, but it is not something different from what is happening usually during other types of interventions, such as telephone interventions. interventions, it is about. In any case, we must not forget that The procedures are carried out under summary secrecy as far as he is concerned and that once this is done, we will agree on what will be appropriate, in the event that this other type of information actually appears”, underlines the magistrate.
The investigator of the case also rejects the subsidiary request of the persons investigated (in the case where the main one is rejected) to guarantee that the analysis of the information entered refers to what interests the case and that it is limited to the period between 10:00 p.m. on Tuesday March 13 and 10:20 a.m. on Wednesday March 14, 2024.
In relation to this subsidiary request, he emphasizes that the pace of the investigation, which has just begun, is “that which must establish the guidelines and the scope of what is agreed” and affirms that, in any event, in the order of November 8, 2024, the reasons why the analysis is limited beyond the period planned by the party are set out.
It specifies that “at the time of issuing this order, the analysis of the devices seized during the search carried out at the headquarters of the State Attorney General’s Office or Álvaro García Ortiz had not begun, of which it There remains only one copy filed in police custody “of the lawyer of the Administration of Justice in this room from the moment of his intervention.
In another order, Hurtado agrees to lift the secrecy of the procedure, with the exception of the elements occurring in the archives, which will be justified in a separate room of a secret nature.
