The State Attorney General arrives at the Supreme Court
The State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, has already reached the Supreme Court, where he is cited to declare as investigated for a crime of revelation of secrets. García Ortiz has arrived at the court by car at 9.45 and has accessed the main door, reserved for authorities, where Javier Huete, one of the prosecutors of the supreme penalty. The head of the Public Ministry, who carried a tie with drawings of justice scales, has not wanted to make statements to the numerous media waiting for him at the entrance of the Supreme and tax sources point out that he will not do them at the exit either. At 10.00 almost the statement has begun.
García Ortiz’s appearance occurs a day after the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal that an association of prosecutors had presented to try to cancel his appointment as a attorney general. It is the first time in the current democratic stage that a general prosecutor goes to the supreme to be interrogated as accused. The case instructor, Judge Ángel Hurtado, summoned García Ortiz to interrogate him about the filtration of an email sent on February 2, 2024 by Alberto González Amador’s lawyer, partner of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and investigated for fiscal fraud, in which the lawyer admitted that his client had committed two fiscal crimes and proposed to the Prosecutor’s Office a pact that would free him from jail.
Although the Civil Guard has not found evidence that García Ortiz gave any order to disseminate confidential data, the judge, as he left written in García Ortiz’s citation car, considers “that the proceedings practiced so far point, with a high degree of verosimilitude ”, to which there are indications to presume that the attorney general and the other two prosecutors investigated (the prosecutor Provincial of Madrid, Pilar Rodríguez, and the lieutenant prosecutor of the Technical Secretariat, Diego Villafañe) could“ have agreed to reveal to reveal Secrets or reserved information related to another citizen, of which they would have had knowledge because of their trade or position and that should not have been disclosed. ” Rodríguez is cited to declare Thursday and Villafañe, on February 5.
In the statement of García Ortiz, they will be present in addition to the judge and the prosecution, the defense of the other two prosecutors investigated, the lawyer of the private accusation that González Amador exercises and those who represent the popular accusations: the Clean Manos Union, the Foundation Freedom and Alternative Forum, the Madrid Bar Association and the Professional and Independent Association of Prosecutors (APIF).
