Ayuso’s couple declares in the Supreme Court after being unauthorized by his client before the judge | Spain
The prosecutor Carlos Neira, the lawyer to whom the businessman Alberto González Amador – for Isabel Díaz Ayuso – To defend against the alleged crimes against the Treasuryhe declares Tuesday as a witness in the open case in the Supreme Court against the State Attorney General. The magistrate Ángel Hurtado He has summoned Neira at the request of the defense of Álvaro García Ortizwho claimed his appearance to ask how many people sent the mail in which he admitted that his client had committed two fiscal crimes and for whose filtration the attorney general is investigated. The State Advocacy also intends to clarify, if on March 12, 2024, one day before that mail came to García Ortiz, he received messages from journalists the country in which he was asked to confirm whether González Amador had a willingness to agree with the Prosecutor’s Office.
But Neira’s appearance has gained an additional interest after, last Friday, Ayuso’s couple would assure that he never authorized his lawyer to reach a pact with the Prosecutor’s Office that will imply admitting two fiscal crimes. This statement contradicts what was stated by the lawyer in El Correo who sent the Public Ministry on February 2, 2024, where he explained that his proposal was “by mutual agreement” with his client. González Amador was forced as a witness to tell truth, just as Neira will be on Tuesday. But either Ayuso’s couple lied in the Supreme or Neira lied in his email to the Prosecutor’s Office.
The testimony of the lawyer on Tuesday will be key to solving this and other doubts that have emerged throughout the instruction
PACT « Under agreement »
González Amador said in the Supreme Court that, after learning that the Prosecutor’s Office investigated him, he put himself in the hands of lawyer Neira and asked him to look for a quick and discreet solution to « not harm » his partner. The businessman discounted from the admission of the crime that his lawyer presented in the mail Sent to the Prosecutor’s Office on February 2, 2024 And he assured that he learned of that proposal on the night of March 13, 2024 after the SER chain revealed it.
However, in the investigation that is followed in the Supreme Court there is proof that González Amador did know that his lawyer was negotiating an agreement. The first evidence arises from the law of the lawyer’s mail to the Prosecutor’s Office, where Neira explains that Ayuso’s couple agreed to close a pact with the Public Ministry: “studied the matter, and by mutual agreement with Alberto González, I communicate that it is a firm will of this part to reach a criminal complia the fee or interest interest to the AEAT ”.
The prosecutor in charge of the case, Julián Salto, replied on February 12: « I write in relation to the alleged crimes of tax fraud, I am the designated prosecutor of the matter, I take note of the will to recognize the facts and satisfy the amounts allegedly disappointed. We are in contact. »
The messages that the Chief of Cabinet of Ayuso, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, also aimed at prior knowledge by the businessman. Thus it is deduced from a WhatsApp that Neira sent to González Amador on the morning of March 12 and that he forwarded at 9.09 his partner’s chief chief: « Good morning Alberto. I have received a prosecutor’s mail. It seems that everything is still standing. I’m going to call the prosecutor to concretize. The idea of mine is that the end has only a minimum conviction and fine. »
During his appearance in the Supreme Court, Ayuso’s couple defended that in that message there was no talk of any pact or the admission of a fiscal fraud for their part. The state lawyer, according to the sources consulted, then asked what the expressions « a convicted », « minimum fine » and « everything is still standing. » And González Amador, according to the sources, he hesitated.
El País messages
State advice also intends to ask Neira If on March 12, 2024 he received communications, via WhatsApp or by email, from journalists from the newspaper El País in which they asked him to confirm that González Amador had the will to admit his crimes against Public Treasury. These messages would come to demonstrate, according to law, that the lawyer’s proposal to the Prosecutor’s Office was no longer a secret when García Ortiz received email whose filtration is investigated.
Four editors of this newspaper have stated before a notary that they knew the negotiations between the lawyer and the Prosecutor’s Office since the midday of March 12, 2024, at least 31 hours before the provincial chief prosecutor of Madrid, Pilar Rodríguez, also charged in the Supreme will free him from jail. The messages exchanged by these four editors and those sent by one of them to the Ayuso couple’s lawyer were published by El País in January and registered with a notary in May. These four journalists are summoned this Friday as witnesses in the Supreme.
An email with several receivers
Neira’s appearance should also serve to clarify how many people had access, before the Attorney General, to the emails exchanged between González Amador’s lawyer and the Prosecutor’s Office. Documents incorporated into the case confirm that the lawyer sent the mail which focuses on a generic mailbox from the Prosecutor’s Office of Economic Crimes and, subsequently, that same day (February 2, 2024), it was referred to the State Advocacy, although it had not yet been formally located in the criminal procedure.
What is intended to demonstrate the defense of García Ortiz is that different people could access that document before the Attorney General did, which opens the door for the filtration to depart from other sources. In addition, the law wants to know if Neira authorized Ayuso’s couple to forward the chief of cabinet of the Madrid president the response mail sent on March 12 by the prosecutor of the case, Julián Salto and if he gave the approval to him to spread it among journalists.
