The State Attorney General appeared before Judge Ángel Hurtado for more than an hour and a half to deny, sharply, that he or any of his collaborators leaked information on the cause of fiscal fraud against the couple of Isabel Díaz Ayuso. “I am absolutely sure that no prosecutor in this country has made a filtration,” he said. He also revealed that on the night of March 13 the media began to echo the confession of Alberto González Amador when he was still reading the documentation and still had emails to examine, thus rejecting that he had leaked its content.
Álvaro García Ortiz became on January 29 in the first Attorney General to appear as accused in a criminal case. He did it to deny that he or his collaborators filtered to the press Confidential data of the fiscal fraud of Alberto González Amador: neither the mail with his confession nor previously the file of the Treasury that had found its fraud of 350,000 euros in the Corporate Tax of 2020 and 2021.
The attorney general started his appearance, among other things, criticizing that Alberto González Amador has hidden for months to the courts that he himself who disseminated one of the emails of the case: the one that prosecutor Julián Salto sent to his lawyer on March 12 and that Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, head of Gabiente de Isabel Díaz Ayuso, referred to dozens of journalists. “The complainant has not been loyal. That behavior is not typical of those who want to keep a secret, ”he said.
On the night of March 13, when Miguel Ángel Rodríguez had disseminated false information from the case to various media, the attorney general received a call from Almudena Lastra, chief prosecutor of Madrid, and launched the mechanisms to deny that news. That night, after the world published at 9:29 p.m. that the Prosecutor’s Office had offered the pact to the businessman and not vice versa, it is when he learns that these negotiations had existed. “It is the first time that I am aware that there is a crossroads,” he alleged before the judge.
The first information about the confession that González Amador’s lawyer had sent to the case prosecutor in February arrived while he was still examining the documentation sent by prosecutor Julián Salto. “When I am still reading that email, the press chief informs me that there is a medium, the sixth,” he explained, that I was already denialing the information disseminated by Rodríguez. “At 22.10 I am still reading that mail,” he claimed before the judge, explaining that he had not yet received the second email.
When an hour later the SER chain reveals the content of the email with the confession, said the attorney general, “at that time I have not yet made a full idea of what is happening, I still have no mail on the 12th of the 12th of March”.
At first, the Attorney General understood that the information offered by the world “has all the visions of being able to be true,” but then verifies that “a lie is being extracted. False information was being given. ” He also made a decision: “I was not going to make use of the document” attached to the mail with which the businessman’s lawyer gave details of his pact offer. That document, which did not include in the statement the next day, had “data that can be sensitive.”
Controversy with prosecutor Lastra
The Attorney General defended throughout his appearance that, in any case and after denying the filtration, the statement issued by the Prosecutor’s Office on the morning of March 14 to deny those false information did not reveal any secret. “The lie can never be a secret,” he said.
The Attorney General also referred to the position of Almudena Lastra, Chief Prosecutor of Madrid whose testimony in this case is considered key by the accusations. García Ortiz acknowledged before Judge Hurtado that “the whole fiscal and judicial curia knows, there is a disaffection of Mrs. Lastra to whom we directed the Spanish Prosecutor’s Office.” He also clarified the discomfort of the Madrid prosecutor with the Attorney General that night: she also agreed to deny the false information of the case, even proposed a press conference, but it was bothered because by the time the prosecution issued its statement all the statement all the Information was already in the media.
“I doubt that a prosecutor in this country addresses the attorney general in those terms, it is very difficult for me If he had leaked information in the case. Lastra, in addition, never put the content of the note: “He was never reluctant with the content, it was that everything was revealed and said in his own words that we did ridiculous if we gave information that had already been published.”
Like the rest of the defendants, García Ortiz explained that those emails and the entire file were available to more prosecutors, not only of their closest nucleus in the Attorney General’s Office, and that that includes the Madrid prosecution that Lastra directs, who said East “absolutely sure that he had not leaked anything.
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