The judge of the Supreme Court, Ángel Hurtado, has asked the attorney general to appoint a lawyer and a solicitor to be able to defend himself as being investigated in the case for revelation of secrets. The investigating magistrate also explains that he will decide later on the procedures that the accusations have requested, among others the intervention of his personal email requested by Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s partner.
The investigator of the case explains that the other investigated, the prosecutor Pilar Rodríguez, is being defended by the State Attorney’s Office but Álvaro García Ortiz, he adds, has not yet appointed his defense and asks that he do so before moving forward with the case. He also asks the popular accusations if they would be willing to appear under a single legal direction and, finally, explains that he will decide later on the proceedings to be launched. In addition to the intervention of the emails, the pseudo-union Clean Hands has requested that García Ortiz be provisionally suspended from his duties.
This is the first move by Judge Ángel Hurtado after the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court decided to open a criminal case against the attorney general and investigate whether Álvaro García Ortiz intervened in the alleged leak of the emails that Alberto González Amador’s defense crossed with prosecutor Julián Salto. At first, the case began in the Superior Court of Madrid to investigate whether a statement issued by the Prosecutor’s Office about the case had revealed confidential information, but the Supreme Court decided to redirect the proceedings to the attorney general due to the leak of those emails.
The statement, with which the Madrid Prosecutor’s Office sought to combat the hoax that the agreement that the businessman had offered to recognize his tax crimes and avoid jail had come from the Public Ministry and had been stopped “from above”, was the first object of the investigation. According to Ayuso’s partner, that statement revealed confidential data from his negotiations with the Prosecutor’s Office that harmed his right to defense. The Superior Court of Justice of Madrid never verified whether the statement reproduced data already published in the media but called several prosecutors and workers from the Prosecutor’s Office to testify to find out who had given the order to issue it.
The investigation did not serve to demonstrate the criminal nature of the statement but it did serve to find out the time at which the attorney general demanded from prosecutor Julián Salto the emails that he had exchanged with the lawyer of Ayuso’s partner. A piece of information that for the Supreme Court has been enough to open a new derivative and direct its investigations against Álvaro García Ortiz and the provincial chief prosecutor of Madrid, Pilar Rodríguez.
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