The alleged revelation of secrets for which the State Attorney General is investigated contemplates a punishment of up to Four years in prison and an disqualification for the position of up to three years, according to article 417.2 of the Criminal Code.
The accusations, … At least the popular one exercised by the Professional and Independent Association of Prosecutors (APIF) and the particular, by Alberto González Amador’s lawyer, come to Álvaro García Ortiz On the bench after his statement as imputed on Wednesday and with the indications that appear in the case against him of the Supreme Court. Instructor Ángel Hurtado still has important proceedings To practice, but the aforementioned accusations do not see a file of the cause on the horizon, as García Ortiz himself expects.
His penalty future is clear, despite the fact that he himself has affirmed in different interviews that he is convinced that You should not resignidentifying the institution of the Public Ministry with itself. «The State Attorney General is a strong institution that has to endure the envies, it must give the feeling that We cannot be demolished”He said in a Spanish television interview in October, as soon as he receives the news of his imputation.
His statement last Wednesday did not serve to separate the indications that weigh on him. Rather, he added more confusion to the cause for different reasons: first, for refusing to answer the questions of the Instructor Magistratequestioning his professionalism when he considers that he investigates him from a preconceived theory. Then, for contradicting her subordinated, the superior prosecutor of Madrid Almudena Lastra, who declared as a witness and pointed to him as the origin of the filtration. And to finish off, to affirm that he has changed his mobile up to six occasions In the last four years but he has not delivered the device he used on the dates investigated to the agents who registered his office in the framework of the open cause against him or to the Prosecutor’s Office itself.
Rodríguez and Villafañe
He also declared as investigated by the Secret Revelation of the Provincial Chief Prosecutor of Madrid, Pilar Rodríguez, on Thursday 30. She was the one who took the economic prosecutor Julián Salv two fiscal crimes- to send him the emails exchanged with your lawyer.
His testimony will be key to clarifying how and when the attorney general claimed The famous emails And the terms of her conversation with Almudena Lastra, who, she said as a witness, recommended not to deliver these communications to the attorney general because «You are going to filter them».
Diego Villafañe, Fiscal Lieutenant of the Technical Secretariat of the State Attorney General’s Office on February 5 is also planned on February 5.
Since Lastra and García Ortiz’s versions are antagonistic, mainly about whether García Ortiz’s request was or not «An order»And the hours to which the emails were required, the statements of Villafañe and Rodríguez They will be key in this sense.
In the event that the matter is not even cleared with them, the judge always has in his hand the possibility of carrying To both of a caressto confront your versions and draw conclusions.
Google and Meta response
Ten days ago the judge sent two rogatory commissions To WhatsApp and Google service providers in order to provide all the information available to the user Álvaro García Ortiz, since the Civil Guard could not collect the messages of their applications by having been deleted.
The prosecutor himself, during his statement, General acknowledged that deleted messages for protection of its interlocutors. It is a diligence that is usually prolonged for monthsso the course of the investigation also remains the Albur of the answer to the aforementioned companies.
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