The judge of the Supreme Court Ángel Hurtado has concluded that it is “evident” that the State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, “has disappeared evidence that could be found in their mobile terminals”, in reference to WhatsApp messages and the account of email that deleted the day he was charged for alleged revelation of secrets.
The magistrate admits, however, that this fact “It lacks criminal relevance”but it also points out that the deletion of messages has “incidence” in the open instruction against the head of the Public Ministry, which is investigated for the filtration of the emails that the defense of Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s boyfriend was exchanged with the Prosecutor’s Office.
“It lacks criminal relevance that an investigated becomes disappearing evidence that can incriminate him; but that it should not be ignored that he has no impact on the development of a criminal instruction,” Hurtado explains in a car in which he attends in part The request of García Ortiz and restricts the access of accusations and defenses to the annexes of the UCO reports.
The judge recalls that the attorney general “has given different explanations to do so”, and reproaches him to have shown some degree of collaboration with the clarification of the facts, I could have communicated it before carrying out such disappearanceand not take advantage to do it on October 16, 2024 “, when it was learned that the Supreme Court was going to investigate for revelation of secrets.
The first step that Hurtado took to try to elucidate who leaked the confidential emails exchanged between prosecutor Julián Salto and González Amador’s lawyer was to order The registration of the offices of two investigated: García Ortiz and the provincial chief prosecutor of Madrid, Pilar Rodríguez. The Central Operating Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard overturned the electronic devices of both accused to analyze their content, with disparate results.
The messages found on Rodríguez’s mobile reveal the communications chain that occurred within the Prosecutor’s Office on the day of the filtration. After filtering a first mail In the world, Álvaro García Ortiz immediately claimed the complete message chain between Salto and González Amador’s lawyer. That first filtered mail implied that Salto had offered a agreement in accordance to free Ayuso’s boyfriend from an eventual prison penalty for the alleged fraud of more than 350,000 euros.
Once the entire emails came to García Ortiz, the content of a mail prior to which the lawyer proposed the agreement and admitted that his client had committed two crimes of fiscal fraud. Anyway, García Ortiz’s telephone analysis did not serve to corroborate or rule out that the Attorney General is after the filtration of this last email, since The UCO found “zero” messages on the device.
The fact is that the State Attorney General erased all his WhatsApp messages and also eliminated his Google personal account the day they charged him. According to García Ortiz himself, last week in the Senate, he has as a habit he periodically eliminate his messages, for several reasons. On the one hand, for his “Right to maintain intimacy”but also to comply with “legal forecasts to protect the data.”
However, as much as García Ortiz assures that the deletion of his phone sought Inculpate the cause.
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