The testimony of the couple of the president of the Community of Madrid and her chief of staff have marked the . Although to hear both of them we had to wait until the afternoon session. In the morning, the first to testify was the press officer of the State Attorney General’s Office. Mar Hedo has detailed that seven days before the leak of the email from the defense of Alberto González Amador, boyfriend of, in which his lawyer offered a pact to avoid prison for his client, she had already received a call from a journalist to ask if they knew of the existence of the case. After El Mundo published that it was the Prosecutor’s Office that had offered a pact to González Amador, Hedo has assured that they began to “quickly” collect information about the case.
His counterpart in the Madrid Prosecutor’s Office, Íñigo Corral, has taken the witness, and has assured that he did not agree with the way in which the explanatory note was issued from the Prosecutor’s Office, although he has assured that the case was of news interest. The next to appear, the chief prosecutor of the Support Unit of the State Attorney General’s Office, has assured that the attorney general changes his mobile phone on average once a year. Esmeralda Rasillo has also explained that there is no standardized protocol to delete data from mobile phones.
Diego Lucas, prosecutor of the Special Prosecutor’s Office against Corruption, has explained delaying maneuvers by Ayuso’s boyfriend. “Starting summer 2024 [cuando el escándalo ya había saltado a la prensa]were not in such a hurry to reach agreement, as the other way around: what they want is that the declaration [del novio de Ayuso] “It happens as late as possible,” Lucas said. “They wanted him not to testify.”
Francesc Vallés, Secretary of State for Communication until La Moncloa replaced him in December 2024, the next witness, has assured that he never had the email whose leak is being investigated. Asked about the accusation, which seeks to link the leak of the email with La Moncloa, Vallés has denied that he sent political communication slogans to Juan Lobato, then general secretary of the PSOE-M, but that he did send news already published in digital media.
Then came one of the two main dishes of the day. The , who is attributed with the dissemination of false information that suggested that it was the public ministry who had offered an agreement to González Amador, when in reality it was his lawyer, Carlos Neira, who had proposed reaching an agreement with the prosecutor. Rodríguez has admitted before the Supreme Court that he helped spread that falsehood. He has also assured that his boss’s partner wanted to “reach an agreement” with the Prosecutor’s Office, and has presented him as a victim. “He is not a fraudster,” he has come to affirm. The Prosecutor’s Office has surrounded him by asking him where he had come from the statement that Amador’s possible pact with the Treasury had been stopped by orders from above, to which he has assured that it was a “logical deduction.” Later, Rodríguez said that he was forced to intervene publicly in the case that affects González Amador because “the reputation of the president” of the Community of Madrid came into question.
After MÁR, and prosecuted for tax fraud, he has presented himself as a victim of the State Attorney General’s Office in the trial against Álvaro García Ortiz, in which he is the private prosecutor. He has assured that his “obsession” when the Treasury informed him that he was being investigated for fraud was that the matter be closed “quickly and quietly” so as not to splatter his partner, but his plan fell apart when his case leaked to the press and, above all, when the email was leaked in which he admitted the crimes. “From that day on I became the confessed criminal of the Kingdom of Spain. Mr. [Álvaro] García Ortiz had publicly killed me,” Ayuso’s partner said. However, the businessman admitted during the statement that his lawyer explained to him that reaching an agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office implied “recognition of the crime.”
After González Amador, the last witness of the day was called, the lawyer Carlos Neira, who admitted in the aforementioned email in which he informed the Prosecutor’s Office that his client had committed two crimes of tax fraud and had tried to reach an agreement to avoid a trial. Neira has said that she explained to Ayuso’s boyfriend that the pact involved acknowledging the crimes and a minimum prison sentence. The lawyer has said that his client was convinced that the email leak came from the Prosecutor’s Office but that he did not tell him why he thought so. And, although he has assured that he did not know how many people had access to the email account where he sent his email, he has admitted that he also sent it to the professional email address of a State lawyer.
