The Madrid Bar Association announces that it will denounce the Prosecutor's Office for its actions in the case against Ayuso's partner

The Illustrious Bar Association of Madrid (ICAM) announced this Monday that it will file a complaint in court for the press release issued by the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office of Madrid last Thursday, when the public ministry issued a statement to deny the distorted data. and the accusations that the team of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso (PP), was leveling against this body as a result of the procedure opened against her partner (Alberto González Amador) for alleged tax fraud and document falsification. The ICAM has stated that it thus intends to purge “possible criminal responsibilities” for the alleged revelation of conversations between the Prosecutor’s Office and the lawyer of the boyfriend of the head of the regional government.

The State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, already sent a letter this Monday to the General Council of Spanish Lawyers to defend the actions of the public ministry. As García Ortiz explains in this letter, Thursday’s statement did not reveal details of the procedure (since these had already been “known in advance by public opinion as a result of an undesirable leak” by the Ayuso Government), but only made reference to “ those aspects (known in advance) that were essential to clear up any shadow of suspicion regarding the actions of the prosecutors of the Madrid Provincial Prosecutor’s Office.” “Whose professionalism and honorability I must protect and defend above all,” says the attorney general.

It all started last Wednesday night. The world published that, hours after the complaint against González Amador for defrauding the Treasury of more than 350,000 euros was made known, the Prosecutor’s Office offered him an agreement by email. That was really the distorted version that Ayuso’s team was spreading among journalists from different media, with which it sought to call into question the actions of the public ministry, against which the president herself had previously charged. The popular leader had presented herself as the victim of a plot by “all the powers of the State.”

On Wednesday night, the Ayuso Government assured several journalists that prosecutor Julián Salto had offered González Amador a deal after the complaint became known. The PP team even provided the content of an email from the prosecutor, in addition to stating that he had later withdrawn the offer due to “orders from above.” This was also repeated to Ayuso’s chief of staff, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, on his account on the social network email an agreement to Mr. González; Before he can respond, the same Prosecutor’s Office says that he has received orders ‘from above’ so that there is no agreement and, then, they go to trial.”

That version, however, gave a distorted image of reality. The email provided by Ayuso’s team was the last in a chain of communications between both parties, which had begun on February 2 by the lawyer of Ayuso’s partner to seek, precisely, an agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office. At the stroke of midnight from Wednesday to Thursday, Cadena SER already published the content of that first email from González Amador’s lawyer, where the two crimes of tax fraud were also admitted. “Certainly they have been committed,” said the lawyer in the email of February 2, sent to the account of email generic from the economic crimes section of the Madrid Prosecutor’s Office and which included an attached eight-page proposal (the latter has not come to light).

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The dean of ICAM, Eugenio Ribón, in an archive image. ICAM via EuropaPress

“The disclosure of any information related to the legal positions or strategies of the parties, without a formalized compliance agreement, constitutes a violation of these basic principles of secrecy, trust and good faith, and puts at risk the neutrality that must characterize the action. of the prosecutor’s office,” insisted Ribón, who announced this Monday that the ICAM Governing Board has given instructions to its legal services to file a complaint for the actions of the Prosecutor’s Office for alleged crimes of infidelity in the custody of documents. and violation of secrets. Despite questions from journalists, Ribón did not want to comment on the performance of Ayuso’s team. In his appearance, during which he pointed out that they will also resort to the administrative route, the dean also did not specify what specific data the Prosecutor’s Office would have revealed in its press release that had not already been published by the media; and how these alleged data revealed would violate the right of defense.