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Álvaro García Ortiz resigned after the Supreme Court suspended him for two years and imposed fines for leaking confidential data on a tax fraud case involving a political rival's partner.
- On Monday, Álvaro García Ortiz, Spain's attorney general, resigned after the Supreme Court found him guilty last week, announcing the decision in a letter to Justice Minister Félix Bolaños.
- After a months-long probe, the Supreme Court found he shared private data about Alberto González Amador and imposed a two-year suspension while the tax inquiry remains open.
- The court ordered him to pay 10,000 in damages to Alberto González Amador, marking the first time in Spain's modern history that the top prosecutor faced a criminal trial.
- The ruling dealt a political blow to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's leftist coalition, which appointed García Ortiz in 2022, and the Spanish government said it "respected the decision but does not share it".
- The resignation will become effective once the Council of Ministers approves it, likely on Tuesday; García Ortiz may appeal to Spain's Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, while Sumar called the verdict a `judicial coup d'etat`.
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Although he is the first prosecutor general of the state tried and convicted, it is necessary to recognize Álvaro García Ortiz's ability to be friends with his friends, and vice versa. It is no longer only that a good part of the government and its speakers have come out in their defense, but that Dolores Delgado ("La Lola", according to some of his sulfurous friendships of other times) has taken the lead of a "manifa" against the "politicizatio…
The Attorney General of the State, Álvaro García Ortiz, presented his resignation this Monday after having been sentenced by the Supreme Court to two years of disqualification for revealing secrets. It has been an unprecedented trial for the highest figure of the Public Prosecutor’s Office and for Spanish democracy in which the conviction has been known even before the judgement was drafted. Of the seven magistrates, the only two progressives in…
Álvaro García Ortiz was sentenced by the Supreme Court in Madrid for the disclosure of confidential information and is now drawing conclusions.
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