Lobato goes to the Supreme Court to testify as a witness in the case of the leak of the tax crimes of Ayuso’s boyfriend
Juan Lobato, leader of the PSOE of Madrid until last Wednesday, has already arrived at the Supreme Court, where he is summoned to testify as a witness in the case in which the State Attorney General is being investigated. Lobato arrived at 9:43, alone and walking to the high court, which he entered without making any statements to the numerous media outlets that were waiting for him at the door. The former socialist leader carried a PSOE folder in his hand, presumably with the record that Judge Ángel Hurtado had requested of his registration before a notary of the messages he exchanged in March with a Moncloa official, Pilar Sánchez Acera, in which She sent him an email pertaining to the case that affects Alberto González Amador, partner of the regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
Lobato resigned on Wednesday as general secretary of the Madrid socialists to, as he said, put a “stop to a situation of confrontation and serious division” that was being generated within the party and denounce a “lynching” by his colleagues. The pressure became unbearable against him when it became known, on Monday, that Óscar López’s Chief of Staff when he was Pedro Sánchez’s Chief of Staff sent him the email of Ayuso’s partner, so that he could use it in the Assembly. Lobato went to a notary to certify the WhatsApp conversation he had with López’s chief of staff.
In any case, upon learning of that conversation, Supreme Court instructor Ángel Hurtado summoned him as a witness because his statement could help clarify the facts being investigated against García Ortiz and the leak of the email to the press.
Lobato must provide a copy of the record that he signed before a notary regarding the messages exchanged with López’s chief of staff, evidence that seems key to knowing how Moncloa accessed the email that is being investigated, if due to its publication in the media, as Lobato has defended. to date, or by other means.
Lobato appears as a witness, but depending on the content of those messages, he could be investigated for a crime of revealing secrets or, even, the judge could agree to new summons that could escalate to Moncloa.
