Judge Ángel Hurtado has ordered that the Civil Guard intervene in more than seven months of private conversations of the State Attorney General to clarify facts that are limited to the night of March 13, when a media outlet published an email from Alberto’s lawyer. González Amador who denied a hoax spread by the Community of Madrid.
A measure reserved for serious crimes, and not for an alleged revelation of secrets, has been agreed by the magistrate against the person in charge of one of the highest institutions of the State without narrowing the limits, which will allow Hurtado to gather information from secret investigations, contacts between Álvaro García Ortiz and his subordinates and any other conversations that the attorney general has had during such a long period of time.
The order authorizing the intervention of García Ortiz’s phone, tablet and computers refers to his “social networks”, in reference to messaging services, and email accounts. And it establishes that all messages received or sent from these accounts have been the subject of investigation since March 8.
The date alludes to the fact that the day before, on the 7th, the provincial prosecutor of Madrid, Pilar Rodríguez, informed her subordinate, Julián Salto, that the person against whom an investigation had been opened a few days before, after a two-year investigation of the Treasury that culminated in a complaint before the public ministry, is the partner of the president of the Community of Madrid.
As in other cases that affect a politically exposed person, the prosecutor should initiate an accounting, informing his superior of the milestones of the procedure. The Treasury had investigated Alberto González Amador as another fraudulent businessman for two years. When the Tax Agency concluded that its actions gathered evidence of a crime, it forwarded its report to the Prosecutor’s Office.
The case against the attorney general is a consequence of the filing of several complaints, one of them by Alberto González Amador. However, not even the defense of Ayuso’s partner went that far in their attempts to collect information from the attorney general’s telephone number and emails. The defense of Ayuso’s partner only required the messages from his personal email account in a period of 13 days – between March 5 and 18 – and not seven months, as the judge has agreed. The commission agent’s lawyers requested this diligence after the prosecutor in the case, Julián Salto, had declared before the Superior Court that the night the hoax was published about alleged orders from above in the prosecution to paralyze an agreement that would avoid the trial, he He sent communications with the defense of Ayuso’s partner to García Ortiz’s personal email.
The complaint by the Madrid president’s partner had been filed for the publication of a press release on the morning of March 14 precisely to deny various published information that reproduced that hoax. After a reasoned statement from the Superior Court of Madrid, which alluded to the denial sent to the media, the Supreme Court Chamber chaired by Manuel Marchena agreed to investigate an alleged crime of revealing secrets, but not because of the press release, which alluded to facts already known, chose to investigate the leak of the email in which González Amador acknowledged two tax crimes and which was first published by Cadena Ser.
That message demonstrated that another email that El Mundo had previously published constructed the hoax that it had been the Prosecutor’s Office that had offered an agreement to González Amador’s lawyer, and not the other way around. The information supported the thesis of Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Ayuso’s chief of staff, according to which the initial agreement offer from the Prosecutor’s Office, somewhat false, had been withdrawn “by orders from above”, a thesis that was later published by different media outlets. .
The decision of conservative judge Ángel Hurtado to obtain information from seven months of the attorney general’s activity includes his communications with heads of specialized prosecutors’ offices, such as Anti-Corruption, Anti-Drug or the National Court, which investigate cases much more serious than an alleged revelation of secrets. . Clean Hands and other ultra organizations are involved in the case and, if the judge does not put a stop to it, they will take over the sensitive information for the State that lived in the attorney general’s cell phone when the secrecy of the summary is lifted.
Information on relevant cases
In the background yesterday was a second search by the Civil Guard by order of Hurtado. The provincial chief prosecutor, Pilar Rodríguez, also suffered the intervention of her messages and emails. Álvaro García Ortiz directs the institution that ensures compliance with the law in Spain, but the State Attorney General’s Office does not investigate cases. This is not the case with the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office.
In Pilar Rodríguez’s cloned computer there are cases that are being followed right now in the autonomous community, some as relevant as the one that keeps the wife of the President of the Government, Begoña Gómez, charged, or the one that attributes, for now, two tax crimes and one of falsification of documents that Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s partner has recognized.
The entry and search of the office of the State Attorney General within the operation of the Supreme Court against Álvaro García Ortiz took place in eleven tedious hours in which the team of the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard cloned the complete content of a mobile phone, two computers – a laptop and a desktop – and a tablet. No one opened a drawer or touched a piece of paper. “The treatment of the civil guards was very correct at all times,” say sources familiar with the police action.
Aware of the seriousness of the situation, the team of agents was led by the lieutenant colonel directed by the Head of the Department of Economic Investigation and Anti-Corruption of the UCO. The lieutenant colonel investigated corruption cases as relevant as Púnica or Lezo when he was commander. To this day, the investigations of the Koldo case or the reports required by Judge Juan Carlos Peinado on Begoña Gómez, the wife of the President of the Government, depend on him.
The attorney general was warned, the identification and cloning of the devices began. Only he and his secretary could be present in his office, to facilitate access to them. The process of cloning the devices lasted eleven hours and ended around midnight.
The civil guards continued with their work in the presence of the lawyer from the Supreme Court Administration of Justice, who was relieved at a given moment by a colleague, a judicial aid official, and the chief prosecutor of the Supreme Court. The attorney general waited for the cloning to finish and only left the office at certain moments. After 11:00 p.m., the agents left the headquarters of the Attorney General’s Office.
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