The case against the State Attorney General and two of his collaborators approaches a key decision by Judge Ángel Hurtado: if Álvaro García Ortiz must be tried for the data filtration of the fiscal fraud of the couple of Isabel Díaz Ayuso. The Magistrate of the Supreme has already heard the three accused already more than a dozen witnesses and has three relevant milestones in the coming weeks: the Civil Guard’s response about whether it is possible to recover the messages of the Attorney General’s telephone, the development of the development of The part of the case that affects the Moncloa and, finally, if the Appeals Chamber of the same Court guarantees or tomb the records in the office of Álvaro García Ortiz and Pilar Rodríguez at the end of October, fundamental piece of the case.
The three accused have appeared before the judge in recent weeks after almost three months of investigation. The three have recognized that their goal on the night of March 13 of last year was not to reveal secrets of the fiscal fraud of Alberto González Amador but to deny false information that Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, head of the Cabinet of Ayuso, was spreading among journalists. And they have denied sharply, both the Attorney General and the Provincial Prosecutor and finally the Fiscal Lieutenant of the Technical Secretariat, Diego Villafañe, who filtered data from the case to the press.
The judge is convinced that the three lined a joint “strategy” to draw all those data in light and that, finally, they were used with “a clear political purpose” against Ayuso in the Madrid Assembly. A theory that sits on three pillars: the deductions of the Civil Guard, the testimony of Almudena Lastra and the revelations of Juan Lobato. But neither the statements nor the report contain evidence of how the mails arrived in the press. In the case, for the moment, no diligence has managed to determine whether the filtration started from the Prosecutor’s Office or if there was any order or indication of the Attorney General to filter that information to the media.
All the material intervened by the Civil Guard on the telephone of Pilar Rodríguez, along with the testimony and statements of the accused, has managed to draw what happened between the second and third week of March 2024. The Prosecutor’s Office did not know that the businessman That they had denounced was Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s couple up to two days after the matter reached the courts, when a journalist called asking about the matter. The Attorney General’s Office claimed the case information for the official channels, but nothing moved until on the 12th of that month Eldiario.es published the case exclusively. A day later, on the night of March 13, the Public Ministry entered fully into an informative crisis when Ayuso’s environment began to spread false information in the case.
The three defendants have declared the same: that in those first days they requested the information of the case by the official channels because it was a relevant matter and then demanded to know the emails that prosecutor Julián Salto had crossed with the businessman’s lawyer for Define the bulos that Rodríguez and several media were disseminating: that the Prosecutor’s Office had offered a pact, but that had been removed by “orders above.” In no case, they said, ordered that this material be sent to the media. The Attorney General, has even specified that by the time the sixth began to publish that González Amador had offered to confess his crimes, he was still examining the emails and did not have all the documentation in his possession.
The judge supports his instruction on the deductions made . Those involved have denied many of the deductions made by the agents in their first report. Rodríguez even said that he feels “humiliated” by some of the statements made by the UCO, for example by relating his role in the alleged filtration with a possible professional promotion when he had just been renewed in his position for five more years.
The strategy of the Prosecutor’s Office and the defendants, two of them defended by state lawyers and the third by the lawyer Cristóbal Martell, is to defend that they did not filter anything and that, in addition, by the time they obtained the emails of González Amador in the night From March 13 that information already circulated outside the walls of the Prosecutor’s Office. Several journalists have affirmed that they knew the terms of the agreement, and even the emails, hours or even days before that date, and Miguel Ángel Rodríguez himself has recognized that the businessman allowed him to disseminate a mail by prosecutor Julián Salto. The data filtration, they defend, could also come from the Madrid Prosecutor’s Office, where more than 500 workers had access to the complete file.
The instructor, at least for the moment, does not buy those defense arguments and both in his cars and in his interrogations it slides what his criteria is: that the attorney general and his collaborators leaked not only the mail with the confession of the businessman but also everything His tax file, where Hacienda gave all the details of the framework of false invoices he used to defraud 350,000 euros. Because the judge, in recent weeks, has announced that the case is no longer about the mail and analyzes both the filtration of the entire file and also, against the criteria of the Supreme itself, the statement used by the Prosecutor’s Office on 14 March to deny Miguel Ángel Rodríguez’s Bulles – to which the instructor does not give any importance – and the news of The World that several prosecutors have openly defined as false.
Resources against records
The suspicion in the defenses is that the magistrate is clear that the case must end in trial. This was openly expressed by Álvaro García Ortiz at the beginning of his statement as accused, when he said that Hurtado had a “predetermination” and “a certainty” on the facts while denouncing that there were still several relevant proceedings to be completed. One of them is that the UCO communicates to the judge if it has been able or not to find any message on the Attorney General’s phone after changing the terminal and eliminating its communications a week after the opening of the case, according to its version following A security protocol. Another milestone will be the decision that the Appeals Chamber took on February 11 on the records.
The first decision of the judge as soon as he took care of the case was to put the proceedings under summary secret and send to the Civil Guard the offices of Álvaro García Ortiz and Pilar Rodríguez. The objective was to seize its phones and electronic devices and all messages and emails related to the case of González Amador. The agents found nothing on the Attorney General’s telephone because a week before he had changed his terminal, but in the mobile of the provincial prosecutor they found the messages in which the judge relies to continue with the case.
The Appeals Chamber will decide in a few days if you confirm or tomb this key diligence of the case four months after the records that the supreme prosecutor itself, during allegations made before the judge, defined as “raid.” Meanwhile, see if the instructor advances in the last line of investigation that remains to be developed: the role he attributes to the Moncloa environment in the dissemination of the email of González Amador’s lawyer.
The judge, for the moment, has rejected several times the imputation of Pilar Sánchez Acera, but for understanding that he still needs to analyze the findings of the UCO on the messages he crossed on the morning of March 14 with Juan Lobato. The messages consigned before the notary by the then general secretary of the Madrid socialists reveal that Sánchez Acera, then advise with Óscar López in La Moncloa and today secretary of organization of the party in the capital, had the full mail before the plural was spread, First means to publish the email.
The case against the Attorney General is approaching at the time the judge must decide whether he sends the case to the bench. A cause that revolves around the filtration of the cause for fiscal fraud against the couple of Isabel Díaz Ayuso. While the proceedings against the Attorney General and his collaborators have been close to the conclusion in just over four months, the case against Alberto González Amador is about to turn a year without, for the moment, the judge has managed to take a statement to the Entrepreneur, called for the fifth time to appear on February 24.
Source: www.eldiario.es
