Overview

• Álvaro García Ortiz denied ordering or making any leak in his January testimony, and he is set to stand trial in November on an alleged revelation-of-secrets charge.
• Defense lawyer Carlos Neira testified that Alberto González Amador told him to go ahead with a plea approach that required admitting two tax offenses, adding that he sent the email without copying his client.
• González Amador said he never knew about the email proposing a plea, asserted he did not participate in it, and told the judge he wished to be treated like an ordinary citizen.
• Madrid president Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s chief of staff, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, admitted forwarding the email content to journalists and acknowledged inventing the claim that prosecutors offered and then withdrew a pact by orders from above.
• Senior prosecutors described unusual access to the file, with Madrid’s chief prosecutor citing 571 users able to view the case and 60 who saw the lawyer’s email, while fiscal Julián Salto said he relayed the emails up the chain in compliance with a legitimate order.