US EditionSpain's Attorney General Denies Leaking Documents in Supreme Court Trial
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For the first time in the country's history, a prosecutor-general is sitting on the dock because he is said to have forwarded a explosive e-mail to the press.
After five sessions watching the trial almost in silence with his lawyers, the State Attorney General has taken the floor this afternoon to defend his innocence. Álvaro García Ortiz has refused to have filtered the mail in which Alberto González Amador’s lawyer, Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s partner and prosecuted for tax fraud, admitted to the Prosecutor’s Office the commission of two crimes against the Treasury. Neither did he send it to the SER chain, …
That a prisoner ventures to plead before the court that he judges that the whole process is a revenge is frequent, especially among those who seem most guilty. But if that defendant is the State's Attorney General and holds him before the Supreme Court in the first trial in which someone is accused of his position and status, he has other derivatives, of greater dimension and significance. In an attempt to get rid of the legal lodacity in which …
The Attorney General of the State, Álvaro García Ortiz in the Supreme: "The truth is not filtered, the truth is defended."
The Attorney General of the State, Álvaro García Ortiz, has begun this Wednesday to testify in the Supreme Court without toga and in the place reserved for the defendants in the...
The Attorney General has referred to the poor relationship he has with Almudena Lastra, the chief prosecutor of Madrid whose testimony in this process is considered key because of the accusations. "I did not hear those words," he said when the State Attorney asked him if Lastra, as she herself said, asked him if he had "filtered" the emails." And he explained that that morning he had to "persecute" the chief prosecutor of Madrid to get the state…
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