Miguel Ángel Rodríguez will declare in the Supreme Court that he is obliged to tell the truth. Judge Ángel Hurtado has decided to call Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s chief of staff to testify as a witness on January 8, in addition to eight journalists who reported on her partner’s tax fraud case. Rodríguez was the first to leak fragments of the emails to various media outlets in which Alberto González Amador, the regional president’s partner, negotiated an agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office, although he conveyed false information about how the events were developing, causing the denial. of the Public Ministry.
Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s chief of staff will appear in court for the first time since the proceedings began regarding the revelation of secrets regarding the emails in which Alberto González Amador’s lawyer offered an agreement to the Prosecutor’s Office to recognize his double tax fraud of 350,000 euros but avoid jail. It was Miguel Ángel Rodríguez who, on the night of March 13, sent a message to several journalists with verbatim extracts from one of those emails but spreading a hoax: implying that the pact offer had come from the Prosecutor’s Office – it had succeeded the setback – and that that offer had been withdrawn by “orders from above” to harm González Amador and subject him to a longer judicial process.
Several media outlets published this false information about the events. Shortly before these publications, the newspaper El Mundo had stated that the offer had come from the Prosecutor’s Office, although omitting that the pact had been frustrated by “orders from above.” This information was what caused the Public Ministry to collect those emails and issue a statement denying the falsehoods, which after a complaint from González Amador led to the opening of proceedings that, months later, keep the attorney general charged.
The Prosecutor’s Office has already alleged on several occasions that the first to disseminate information from these emails was Miguel Ángel Rodríguez himself, right-hand man of the president of the Community of Madrid. Now the Supreme Court judge, Ángel Hurtado, has accepted that he come to testify as a witness, therefore obliged to tell the truth. He also launches another procedure that the attorney general considers key to defending that he did not leak those emails that night of March 13: calling to testify, also as witnesses, eight journalists from different media who published the emails or made reference to his content.
This interrogation by Miguel Ángel Rodríguez will serve, therefore, to clarify whether a part of Alberto González Amador’s emails were already circulating among the media before the attorney general obtained them when he requested them to deny the false information that was being published. .
Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s chief of staff, with a long career in political communication since his services to José María Aznar in the 1990s, personally took on the defense of Alberto González Amador after elDiario.es revealed that he had been reported by the Prosecutor’s Office for defrauding more than 350,000 euros using a network of false invoices. Among other things, Rodríguez threatened a journalist from elDiario.es with the closure of the newspaper and falsely reported that two editors from this medium had gone, hooded and disguised, to Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s house to try to sneak in.
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