The Attorney General of the State will sit on the bench from this Monday
The leak of an email will provide a historical picture, as it will be the first time a State Attorney General has sat on the bench.
Garcia Ortiz, in a stock image.
The leak of a message written by the lawyer of Ayuso's partner, Isabel Díaz, acknowledging that she had defrauded the Treasury will put a State Attorney General, Alvaro García Ortiz, on the bench for the first time on charges of disclosure of secrets.
The Supreme Court will judge for two weeks whether García Ortiz committed this crime. Individual and popular charges, such as the couple of the President of Madrid and an association of prosecutors, face penalties ranging from 4 to 6 years' imprisonment and up to 12 years' disqualification.
The Public Prosecutor's Office, with the assistance of the Deputy Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, shall defend the absence of a crime, since García Ortiz may not be charged with "any interference" in the dissemination of such or other e-mail. The same thesis will be used by the state lawyers who represent him.
Forty witnesseswill testify at the Supreme's headquarters : politicians such as Ayuso's chief of staff, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Díaz, or PSOE-M number two, Pilar Sánchez Acera, and former Moncloa officials; prosecutors, journalists and civil guards, who for the first time in their history searched the Attorney General's office by court order.
Until the end of the trial, 12 November , the Attorney General will not take the floor. Before the judge, he openly denied leaking or ordering the disclosure of confidential information about Ayuso's partner, and was "certain" that prosecutors had not done so.
The State Lawyer's Office argues that García Ortiz, who asked for an e-mail to give the information truthfully, and that there was a "perfectly organized" campaign in which Miguel Ángel Rodríguez designed an "alternative account" and informed the media that it was the prosecutor who offered the pact to the lawyer - and not the other way around - and withdrew it "on the orders above."
Rodriguez explained to the judge that he had "guessed" this statement on the basis of "suspicions."
The Attorney-General shall be defended by the Attorneys of the State, José Ignacio Ocio and Consuelo Castro, and shall be represented by the Attorney-General, María Ángeles Sánchez Conde, and the Attorney-General of Extremadura, Francisco Javier Montero.
The lawyer of Díaz Ayuso's partner will also appear as a private prosecution, and as a popular accusation, two lawyers from the Madrid Bar Association, one from the Forum Libertad y Alternativa (which brings together Vox and Hazte Oir), two from the Professional and Independent Association of Prosecutors, and one from Manos Limpia.
2 February 2024
On February 2, 2024, lawyer Carlos Neira sent a message to a prosecutor proposing a consensus to reduce the petition for conviction against Díaz Ayuso's partner, Alberto González Amador. He admitted on his behalf that "two" tax offences have been committed.
On March 13, the newspaper El Mundo reported that it was the Public Prosecutor's Office that proposed to Ayuso's partner, in exchange for a reduction in the penalty, to admit two tax offences, but it was actually the other way round.
According to the investigating judge, Garcia Ortiz entered into a "frantic exchange of communication" with other prosecutors to "win the story" and has accused him of leaking the mail to the SER chain.
The Deputy Prosecutor disagrees with this thesis by denying that García Ortiz leaked messages containing information "known" to others and arguing that he collected information from his subordinate staff to disseminate a press release refuting "erroneous" news published by some media outlets and "public officials."
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