The Supreme Court has announced that it is opening a criminal case against the State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, due to the complaint by Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s partner for revealing secrets. This is the first criminal case that the Supreme Court has opened against a sitting attorney general. The investigator of the case will be Judge Ángel Hurtado, who will also investigate Pilar Rodríguez, Madrid’s provincial chief prosecutor.
The Chamber explains that the statement issued by the Prosecutor’s Office on the case of Alberto González Amador contained information already revealed by the media, but focuses on the leak of the emails in which his lawyer acknowledged the two tax crimes and offered to agree The investigation will focus, therefore, on whether it was the attorney general who previously leaked those emails to the media.
The case that has now been taken up by the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court began when Alberto González Amador, partner of Isabel Díaz Ayuso and accused of confessed double tax fraud, accused the Prosecutor’s Office of having leaked confidential data from his case in a public statement. . A statement in which the Madrid Prosecutor’s Office explained how the contacts had taken place between the businessman’s lawyer and the prosecutor who was investigating him to reach a possible agreement in a future trial.
In the previous hours, both Miguel Ángel Rodríguez and various media outlets had reported that it was the Public Ministry that had offered the pact. In the case of Ayuso’s chief of staff and media such as Vozpópuli either The Debatethey added that this agreement had been withdrawn by orders from “above” within the Prosecutor’s Office. The Public Ministry has always defended that its statement included information already published and that its objective was to deny this false information about the development of the case.
The case reached the Superior Court of Madrid, which last July decided to submit a reasoned statement to the Supreme Court so that Álvaro García Ortiz could be charged. Throughout the proceedings, several members of the Madrid Public Ministry testified and finally the attorney general himself wrote to the judges to take responsibility for the statement, always denying that it constituted a crime of revealing secrets.
The Criminal Chamber understands that the note issued by the Madrid Prosecutor’s Office on the case did not include “information improperly revealed in the face of public knowledge of the facts,” but adds that previously the emails between the prosecutor Julián Salto and Alberto González’s lawyer “They were revealed” while they were in the possession of the attorney general and the provincial chief prosecutor.
The Supreme Court recalls that various media outlets, including elDiario.es, published the verbatim nature of these emails and Judge Hurtado must investigate whether it was the responsibility of the attorney general. “Hours before the press release, the emails between the Prosecutor of the case and Mr. González Amador’s lawyer were revealed, being in the possession of the State Attorney General and the Provincial Chief Prosecutor,” explains the Chamber.
The fraud of Alberto González Amador
In parallel, a Madrid court continues to investigate Alberto González Amador for the double tax fraud revealed by elDiario.es that he perpetrated when trying to save hundreds of thousands of euros in taxes after collecting several million euros in commissions on sales of medical supplies. during the pandemic. A fraud of more than 350,000 euros perpetrated, as he himself has acknowledged, through a system of false invoices used to deceive the Treasury and drastically reduce his Corporate Tax bill in 2020 and 2021.
Contrary to what was stated in the information to which the Prosecutor’s Office intended to respond, it was González Amador’s own defense that wrote to the Public Ministry to acknowledge his tax crimes and offer an agreement: pay his debts with the Treasury and accept eight months in jail but without having to go to prison to serve a sentence. Furthermore, he did so even before judicial proceedings were opened, much earlier than is usual in these cases in which the agreement is signed on the same day of the trial.
The case against him is waiting for Ayuso’s partner, the Prosecutor’s Office and the Law Office to sign that agreement or not, although the case is still in the investigation phase and there are more defendants, among others the businessmen who supposedly participated in the preparation of the network of false invoices.
The leak of the emails, the Supreme Court understands, could have affected his right to defense. “There is a burden of harm that affects the possible harm to Mr. González Amador’s right to defense, as a consequence of the disclosure of the email between his lawyer and the Economic Crimes Prosecutor,” says the Chamber. This revelation “may condition the future processing of Mr. González Amador’s process.”
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