The Prosecutor’s Office has responded to the request for information from the Supreme Court judge, Ángel Hurtado, about the movements of the attorney general during the searches on October 30 at the headquarters of the Public Ministry. The security service has reported that the images requested by the magistrate, at the request of a popular accusation who claims to have seen Álvaro García Ortiz manipulate his cell phone that day, simply do not exist because there are no cameras inside the building. The records of the search, kept secret and therefore accessible to the judge, also show that, by that time, the attorney general had recovered his phone from the delegation and it had already been analyzed by the agents.
It was the Professional and Independent Association of Prosecutors (APIF), one of the popular accusations in the case, that wrote to the judge on November 12 to, in an appeal, slide the accusation for the first time: the lieutenant prosecutor of the Supreme “She was seen by at least one Supreme Court prosecutor” that October 30 around seven in the afternoon “reviewing a cell phone with the attorney general in the central courtyard when the Civil Guard was still carrying out its investigations.”
A “surprising” fact that they developed in a request for proceedings a day later, revealing that the “Supreme prosecutor” who had seen them was Salvador Viada, president of the association and member of the Fiscal Council. Giving more details, such as that they were “reviewing a cell phone apparently belonging to the person under investigation.”
In that letter, the APIF already stated that they were examining “crucial evidence of the crime” and requested several measures, including the one that Judge Hurtado agreed to yesterday: asking the security of the central building of the Prosecutor’s Office to preserve the images from the cameras. that directly record the central patio of the building where García Ortiz was seen manipulating the main evidence of the crime. The problem, the Public Ministry has communicated in writing to the judge today, is that these cameras have never existed. And the records reveal that, by then, the attorney general had recovered his phone from agents more than an hour earlier.
The records of the search of that day, October 30, in which the Central Operational Unit requisitioned by order of Judge Ángel Hurtado all the messages and emails in search of evidence about the leak of the emails of Alberto González Amador’s lawyer, also demonstrate that At that time, although it was the attorney general’s motive, it was “crucial evidence of the crime” that had already been examined by the agents and returned to Álvaro García Ortiz.
According to the minutes, currently under summary secrecy but available to the Prosecutor’s Office and the judge, the dumping of all the necessary information ended at 5:50 p.m. that afternoon and the cell phone was returned to the attorney general five minutes later. Almost an hour before, according to prosecutor Viada who was observing from the vicinity, García Ortiz and the lieutenant prosecutor were seen, supposedly, manipulating him in some way.
The delegation that went to the Prosecutor’s Office to carry out Hurtado’s orders was made up of five agents from the Civil Guard and headed by the Lawyer of the Administration of Justice of the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court. It was she who wrote the minutes, reflecting that García Ortiz recovered his phone at 5:55 p.m. with the SIM cards. These minutes remain under summary secrecy but are available to both the Prosecutor’s Office and Judge Hurtado himself, with the Chamber official being the one who recorded and drew up minutes of what happened.
The cameras do not exist
Judge Hurtado asked that the Prosecutor’s Office not delete the images from the cameras in case they later decided to investigate the fact reported by the APIF. The head of security of the Prosecutor’s Office has written to the magistrate to inform him that “currently there is no security camera installed in the central courtyard, there are only cameras on the outer perimeter of the building”, as sources from this pointed out yesterday. organization to elDiario.es.
The case investigates whether the attorney general or the provincial prosecutor of Madrid were involved in the leak of the emails in which the lawyer of Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s partner recognized a double tax fraud of 350,000 euros. Procedures that, in the last few hours, have opened up to a new possibility: that PSOE officials also had those emails and hatched a plan to disseminate them in the Madrid Assembly.
This Friday, Juan Lobato will testify before the judge after the ABC newspaper published that at the beginning of November he went to a notary to record the messages that he allegedly exchanged with Pilar Sánchez Acera, then working in Moncloa, in March. Messages in which, according to that information, Sánchez Acera offered him those emails to use that same morning of March 14 before Isabel Díaz Ayuso in the regional chamber. According to the version of Lobato, who yesterday left his position at the head of the Madrid PSOE, he went to the notary to be able to demonstrate that neither he nor the PSOE nor Moncloa ever handled that information before it was published in the media.
Meanwhile, the judge is waiting to receive the report from the UCO on the emails and messages intercepted to the attorney general that October 30. A first analysis referring to the material seized in the office of Pilar Rodríguez, provincial prosecutor of Madrid, led the Civil Guard to conclude that the Prosecutor’s Office was behind the leak, without the analyzed emails showing any order or message in that sense, only conversations aimed at collecting emails to deny false information published on March 13 about the case of Alberto González Amador.
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