Overview
- Guardia Civil UCO agents who searched his office and extracted his devices are testifying, with reports asserting his preeminent participation in leaking a February 2, 2024 email about a proposed tax agreement.
- UCO lieutenant colonel Antonio Balas is slated to confirm conclusions drawn from the office search and forensic analysis of seized material.
- Multiple journalists told the court they accessed the email’s contents before 21:59 that night, the time it was sent to García Ortiz, challenging the prosecution’s timeline of the leak.
- A UCO report says all WhatsApp messages on García Ortiz’s account were deleted on October 16, 2024, the day he was charged, which his defense describes as adherence to security protocols supported by the Fiscalía’s data‑protection official.
- The State Attorney’s Office and the defense seek to exclude evidence from searches of the Fiscalía, arguing the operations were unconstitutional and yielded improperly obtained material.