The Supreme Court has several requests on the table for the case against the attorney general to go further and investigate the role played by Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s right-hand man, in the publication of Alberto González Amador’s emails. Álvaro García Ortiz’s requests for the judge to analyze whether the commission agent’s entourage was the first to disseminate this information have been met with opposition from the PP and intersect with the new strategy of the Madrid president’s partner: asking for compensation that almost exceed the amount of tax fraud that he confessed.
The earthquake that entailed the entry of the elite unit of the Civil Guard to seize the devices of the Prosecutor’s Office leadership is being settled by means of an order and an appeal. Judge Ángel Hurtado, after ordering that investigators seize seven months of messages and emails on all the mobile phones, tablets and computers of the attorney general and the provincial prosecutor of Madrid, has asked the Civil Guard to, once all the material has been seized , analyze only the one that has to do with the cause and related during a few days in March, when the information was supposedly leaked.
The State Attorney’s Office, which represents García Ortiz and the prosecutor Pilar Rodríguez in the process, has already denounced in writing that in this trawling the Central Operational Unit has cloned sensitive information “that may compromise the security of the State.” In an organization as vertical as the Prosecutor’s Office in which the highest superior acts as the final filter, a dump like that has removed information not intended for the general public from the usual channels. Sources present in the registry assure that among the seized material there are communications with heads of Anti-Corruption, the Economic Crimes Prosecutor’s Office and even with prosecutors from other countries.
The unrest in the Public Ministry has started with Judge Hurtado’s management of judicial secrecy. That day he announced the opening of proceedings, asked García Ortiz to appoint a lawyer, placed the case under summary secrecy and ordered the searches, notifying only the operative part of the order: the list of things that the Civil Guard had orders to take. The attorney general appealed that order blindly, without knowing its arguments, but the rest of the parties have been able to consult it in its entirety to make their own allegations. On Monday the judge lifted the secrecy that weighed on that resolution and it could be consulted publicly on the website of the General Council of the Judiciary from early in the morning. The attorney general was not notified until noon.
In addition to presenting his protest against this record, Álvaro García Ortiz has also addressed the judge to explain that the current proceedings do not include the entire reality of that March 13, when he is accused of having leaked the emails. The reality, says the attorney general in his appeal, is that the first publications that reflected the full content of the communications between Alberto González’s lawyer and the Prosecutor’s Office in search of an agreement were published by a media outlet before he received that material in your personal email. And that in those hours it was Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Ayuso’s right-hand man in the regional government, who spread part of those emails to several media journalists who ended up publishing that false information in its entirety.
The attorney general asks Judge Hurtado to, in practice, take the investigation to the surroundings of Alberto González Amador and President Isabel Díaz Ayuso because these first information, in addition to being prior to his intervention, cited sources close to the defense of the businessman. Not from the Prosecutor’s Office or the Tax Agency. And discover if the first to reveal these negotiations between the accused and the Prosecutor’s Office was González Amador’s entourage, even if it was to give a biased view of the conversations and tilt the balance of public opinion in his favor.
A few weeks in which Miguel Ángel Rodríguez personally assumed the public defense of Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s partner, threatening elDiario.es with closure and spreading hoaxes about how journalists had tried to enter his house masked, among other lies or half-truths. intended to portray the tax fraud case of Alberto González Amador as a persecution by the State and the media against an “individual.”
Several causes in parallel
The option that the attorney general has put on Judge Hurtado’s table is to call both journalists from half a dozen media outlets that published that information on the night of March 13 and Miguel Ángel Rodríguez himself to testify. A proposal that has not gone down well in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol. “It is an absolute irregularity,” Carlos Díaz-Pache, spokesperson for the PP in the Madrid Assembly, said this Thursday. “If you try to look for Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, they will find you,” Miguel Ángel García Martín, advisor to the Ayuso Presidency, also added. Rodríguez spoke through his account on the social network X to comment on the situation with the same “pa’lante” that he uses to predict judicial movements.
The case for revealing secrets about Alberto González Amador’s emails has progressed much faster than the original proceedings in which the businessman is accused of double tax fraud of more than 350,000 euros. The cause of the emails whose publication Judge Hurtado analyzes. The proceedings for the revelation of secrets have been open in the Superior Court of Madrid, they have gone to the Supreme Court for a reasoned exposition through and have seen half a dozen interrogations, appeals and a ten-hour search. In the tax fraud case of Alberto González Amador, for the moment, no one has testified in court.
This lack of activity in the main cause of the entire network of proceedings responds, on the one hand, to the fact that a good part of the investigation was already carried out by the Tax Agency before being prosecuted by the Prosecutor’s Office. And on the other hand, the possibility of the businessman reaching an agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office keeps the case in suspense. An agreement with which Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s partner offered to accept a symbolic prison sentence, pay more than half a million euros between debts to the Treasury, fines and interest, but in exchange for avoiding going to prison.
That agreement is currently up in the air while the Supreme Court moves full steam ahead in the investigation into the leak of the original version of that pact. The judge investigating the fraud accepted the request of PSOE and Más Madrid to expand the case against him to investigate more crimes in his relationship with the Quirón group and, meanwhile, his appearance scheduled for the end of November has been suspended.
With the calendar and judicial times playing fully in favor of the strategy of Alberto González Amador, who even wore a wig to hide from the cameras on his first visit to the court, the commission agent has decided to open a third front in the courts. Demanding compensation from a dozen politicians and parties that have spoken out about his case. In total, it requests 325,000 euros through civil means in several lawsuits that range from the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to Madrid councilors such as Rita Maestre. Only 25,000 euros less than what he has admitted to having defrauded the Treasury when he used a network of false invoices to save taxes on the million-dollar commissions he charged in operations for the purchase and sale of medical supplies during the pandemic.
The next move is in the hands of Supreme Court Judge Ángel Hurtado, who is awaiting an analysis from the Civil Guard of all the communications intercepted in the October 30 registry and also has several options that go in opposite directions. On the one hand, the attorney general requests his exculpation and, as main evidence, proposes that Alberto González Amador’s entourage explain whether they were the first to put his emails into circulation. On the other hand, the Professional and Independent Association of Prosecutors (APIF) has appeared as an accusation, has requested that the investigation into the attorney general’s communications be even broader and has even offered to provide testimony on how Álvaro García Ortiz spoke with his ‘number 2’ while the registration was taking place.
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