The Prosecutor’s Office responded to Supreme Court Judge Ángel Hurtado’s request for information on the Attorney General’s movements during the October 30 searches at the Public Prosecutor’s Office. The security service reported that the images requested by the magistrate, at the request of a popular accusation that claims to have seen Álvaro García Ortiz handling his cell phone that day, simply do not exist because there is no no cameras inside the building. The minutes of the search, kept secret and therefore accessible to the judge, also show that at that time, the Attorney General had recovered his phone from the delegation and that it had already been analyzed by the agents.
It was the Professional and Independent Association of Prosecutors (APIF), one of the popular charges in the case, which wrote to the judge on November 12 to, on appeal, slide the charge for the first time: the lieutenant prosecutor of the Supreme Court “She was seen by at least one prosecutor of the Supreme Court” this October 30 around 7 p.m. “examining a cell phone with the attorney general in the central court while the Civil Guard was still carrying out his investigations.
A “surprising” fact that they developed in a request for prosecution the next day, revealing that the “supreme prosecutor” who had seen them was Salvador Viada, president of the association and member of the Fiscal Council. Giving more details, such as that they were “examining a cell phone apparently belonging to the person under investigation.”
In this letter, the APIF already declared that it was examining “crucial evidence of the crime” and requested several measures, including the one accepted yesterday by Judge Hurtado: asking the security of the central building of the Prosecutor’s Office to preserve the images of the cameras which directly record the central patio of the building where García Ortiz was seen handling the main evidence of the crime. The problem, the public prosecutor communicated in writing to the judge today, is that these cameras never existed. And records reveal that at that point, the attorney general had retrieved his phone from agents more than an hour earlier.
The acts of the search of today, October 30, during which the Central Operational Unit requisitioned by order of Judge Ángel Hurtado all the messages and emails in search of evidence on the leak of the emails of the lawyer of ‘Alberto González Amador, also demonstrate that this time, although it was the Attorney General’s motive, it was “crucial evidence of the crime” that had already been examined by the agents and returned to Álvaro García Ortiz.
According to the report, currently subject to summary secrecy but available to the prosecution and the judge, the transmission of all the necessary information ended at 5:50 p.m. in the afternoon and the cell phone was returned to the Attorney General five minutes later. Almost an hour before, according to prosecutor Viada who observed from the surrounding area, García Ortiz and the lieutenant prosecutor were seen manipulating him in one way or another.
The delegation that went to the Prosecutor’s Office to carry out Hurtado’s orders was composed of five agents of the Civil Guard and led by the Lawyer of the Administration of Justice of the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court. She was the one who wrote the report, specifying that García Ortiz recovered her phone at 5:55 p.m. with the SIM cards. These reports remain subject to summary secrecy but are available to the Office of the Prosecutor and to Judge Hurtado himself, the official of the Chamber being the one who recorded and wrote the report of what happened.
Cameras don’t exist
Judge Hurtado asked that the prosecution not delete the images from the cameras in case it later decides to investigate the fact reported by APIF. The head of security at the Public Prosecutor’s Office wrote to the magistrate to inform him that “currently there is no security camera installed in the central courtyard, there are only cameras on the exterior perimeter of the building”, as l ‘sources from this office pointed out yesterday. .organization at elDiario.es.
The case seeks to know whether the Attorney General or the Provincial Prosecutor of Madrid were involved in the leak of emails in which the lawyer of Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s partner admitted double tax fraud of 350,000 euros. Procedures that, in the last hours, have opened up a new possibility: that those responsible for the PSOE also had these emails and had developed a plan to disseminate them to the Madrid Assembly.
This Friday, Juan Lobato will testify before the judge after the ABC newspaper published that in early November he went to a notary to record the messages he allegedly exchanged with Pilar Sánchez Acera, then working in Moncloa, in March. Messages in which, according to this information, Sánchez Acera offered him these emails to use the same morning of March 14 in front of Isabel Díaz Ayuso at the regional chamber. According to the version of Lobato, who yesterday left his post at the head of the PSOE in Madrid, he went to the notary to be able to demonstrate that neither he, nor the PSOE nor Moncloa ever processed this information before it is published in the media.
Meanwhile, the judge is waiting to receive the UCO report on intercepted emails and messages to the Attorney General on October 30. A first analysis concerning the material seized in the office of Pilar Rodríguez, provincial prosecutor of Madrid, led the Civil Guard to conclude that the Prosecutor’s Office was at the origin of the leak, without the analyzed emails showing any order or message in in this sense, only conversations aimed at collecting emails to deny the false information published on March 13 on the case of Alberto González Amador.
