Overview

• Supreme Court deputy prosecutor Ángeles Sánchez Conde filed written conclusions asking for the acquittal of Attorney General Álvaro García Ortiz in the case over the alleged leak tied to Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s partner.
• The filing requests testimony from 19 people for the oral hearing, including Alberto González Amador, Ayuso’s chief of staff Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, senior Madrid prosecutors, and ten journalists from outlets such as El Mundo, El País, eldiario.es and Cadena SER.
• Sánchez Conde contends no act of divulgation can be attributed to García Ortiz regarding emails between prosecutor Julián Salto and lawyer Carlos Neira and says multiple journalists already knew the deal’s details before he received the message.
• The brief defends the March 14, 2024 press note from the Madrid Prosecutor’s Office as accurate and previously known information, while noting that complaints over alleged confidentiality—initially set aside by the Supreme Court—were later revived during the investigation.
• The case is slated for an autumn oral trial before a seven-judge Supreme Court panel presided over by Andrés Martínez Arrieta alongside magistrates Manuel Marchena, Antonio del Moral, Juan Ramón Berdugo, Carmen Lamela, Susana Polo and Ana Ferrer.