The lieutenant of the Attorney General of the Supreme Court, María Ángeles Sánchez Conde, filed an appeal in the Superior Court against the searches carried out last Wednesday in the offices of the Attorney General of the State, Álvaro García Ortiz, and the Attorney General of the province of Madrid, Pilar. Rodríguez, reports Europa Press.
For more than ten hours, an agent of the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard cloned the contents of cell phones and computers in the trial opened against the two for the alleged leak of an email linked to the tax investigation. fraud against Alberto González Amador, partner of Isabel Díaz Ayuso. At the same time, the businessman’s accusation demands that Sánchez Conde, who is “number two” in the State Attorney General’s Office, withdraw from this procedure.
According to him, there are up to four causes of abstention among Sánchez Conde: having an “intimate friendship” with one of the parties; having participated “directly or indirectly” in the affair; having “issued an opinion” on this subject; and “have a direct or indirect interest” in the matter.
Thus, it specifies that Sánchez Conde wrote the report of September 30 in which the prosecution requested that García Ortiz not be opened, that he was present at the aforementioned search or that he participated in the Council of Judicial Prosecutors who accepted by a majority of it will be requested that González Amador’s complaint be inadmissible. It also specifies that the professional activity and position of Sánchez Conde are “directly linked” to the maintenance of García Ortiz at the head of the State Attorney General’s Office.
González Amador’s request to the Supreme Court arrives on the same day that the Prosecutor’s Office informed in an internal communication to the Prosecutor’s Office that García Ortiz extended to the Superior Court the abstention that he had already accepted for this case when he was in court superior. Court of Justice of Madrid (TSJM) and before a court in Madrid.
This means that Sánchez Conde will be exempt from receiving orders from García Ortiz and reporting to him on this matter, thus guaranteeing the independence of the lieutenant prosecutor in decision-making in this legal procedure.
