“Because it arrives, the media has it”

The judge of the Supreme Court, Ángel Hurtado, has copied the messages that Juan Lobato exchanged with Pilar Sánchez Acera on March 14 about the emails from Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s partner. As sources of the case explain to elDiario.es and the politician himself has confirmed upon leaving the Supreme Court, at the request of one of the accusations, Lobato has handed over his telephone number, in addition to the notarial documents. “Everything answered, accredited, they voluntarily asked me if I wanted to make the mobile phone available and I said yes. The socialists, the truth and the law ahead,” he said.

The messages delivered today by Lobato in the Supreme Court, which elDiario.es has been able to examine, start at half past eight in the morning, when Pilar Sánchez Acera sends him the email in which Alberto González’s lawyer offers an agreement to the Prosecutor’s Office . In that conversation, the then advisor in Moncloa urges him to be “careful with personal data” but also to bring it out during his speech in the plenary session at the Madrid Assembly, which will be in two hours.

Lobato then asks if that email has already been published in any media and asks where it came from. “Because it arrives, the media has it.” The then leader of the Madrid PSOE urges us to wait for it to be published in some media: “If not, it seems that the Prosecutor’s Office has given it to me.” One minute before nine thirty in the morning, when the plenary session has not yet started, Sánchez Acera informs him that it is already being published by the media and sends him a link from El Plural. An hour later Lobato brought out the document in the plenary session of the Assembly but with the personal information crossed out.

Before the judge, according to sources in the process, Lobato has insisted on the same thing that he has been saying for several days: that he went to the notary to record that the document had not been disseminated before it became public knowledge.

The former general secretary of the Madrid PSOE arrived at the Supreme Court about 20 minutes before his summons, without making any statements and carrying a white folder with the party logo in red. In addition to testifying, the politician also had to provide the conversations that he recorded in a notary’s office at the beginning of November, in which a Moncloa advisor supposedly offered him the emails of Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s partner to use on the morning of that 14th. March in the plenary session of the Madrid Assembly.

To date, Lobato has always defended that he only obtained those emails after they were disseminated by several media outlets on that Thursday morning. It was around ten thirty in the morning when he appeared before the plenary session and showed the document to Isabel Díaz Ayuso in his first appearance before the plenary session of the Assembly after elDiario.es exclusively revealed that the Prosecutor’s Office had denounced his partner for a double tax fraud of more than 350,000 euros.

The judge decided to call him to testify as a witness after the newspaper ABC revealed that at the beginning of November he went to a Madrid notary to record the messages he exchanged that morning on the subject with Pilar Sánchez Acera, then Óscar López’s chief of staff in Moncloa and today his advisor in the Ministry.