The Madrid Prosecutor’s Office has requested that the complaint filed by Alberto González Amador, partner of the regional president Isabel Díaz Ayuso, be filed, for allegedly revealing secrets against the chief prosecutor of Madrid, Pilar Rodríguez, and the prosecutor. of economic crimes, Julián Salto.
The prosecutor presented this Thursday before the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid the document in which she opposes the complaint, according to the criteria issued yesterday Wednesday by the Board of Court Prosecutors, which endorsed the decision of the number two of the Public Ministry of request the file.
The meeting of the Board, whose criteria are not binding, endorsed by majority the position of number two, María Ángeles Sánchez Conde, compared to that of the prosecutor María de la O Silva, who was the one who had to report on the admission or not of the complaint filed by Ayuso’s partner, and who had argued that he wanted to carry out investigations before writing his report.
Finally, Silva has assumed the opinion of the majority and has presented a brief early this afternoon before the TSJM in which he opposes both this complaint and the one filed by the Madrid Bar Association for the press release issued by the Madrid Prosecutor’s Office on March 14, in which details were given about the investigation of Alberto González for the alleged crimes of tax fraud and document falsification. Both cases have been accumulated into one, as confirmed by the document.
The prosecutor states that the press release “was limited to providing truthful information to the public without revealing data, facts or documents that had not already been disseminated in different media and in response to the demand for corroboration of the published news,” and “lacks criminal legal relevance to proceed with the opening of criminal proceedings.” She adds that doing so “would mean opening a fully prospective criminal investigation, prohibited by our legal system.”
The letter emphasizes that the data revealed “are clearly innocuous and clearly insufficient” to constitute a crime.
The prosecutor describes how since March 12, several media outlets published information about the investigation of González Amador and the agreement he offered to the Public Ministry, and how on March 14 “the Madrid Provincial Prosecutor’s Office released a press release to the media to clarify the facts and respond to the growing and repeated demand for information.”
It specifies that “the doubts about the correct conduct of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, raised, in addition to different media, by the president of the Community of Madrid herself and her cabinet director, advised conveying to public opinion the reality of what happened, offering objective data that will clear up any shadow of doubt regarding the actions carried out by the Public Prosecutor’s Office.”
He states that by then “various media outlets had already previously published their content”, some in a “partial and distorted” manner, and maintains that “there is not a single indication that the defendants improperly disclosed” confidential data, but that everything was “of public knowledge” and “newsworthy.”
The prosecutor adds that “in any case, these data do not have a minimum degree of harm” because “it did not in any way harm the proper functioning of the Administration of Justice, or the complainant, that such data were known.”
