Overview
- - The State Lawyers’ Office, defending Álvaro García Ortiz, argued he sought internal emails to rebut claims of a political plot and asked the court to annul searches and device cloning for violating fundamental rights.
- - The defense submitted an expert report stating it is impossible to determine which messages were deleted from García Ortiz’s phone on October 16, 2024, the day the Supreme Court opened the criminal case.
- - Prosecutors, the private accuser for Alberto González Amador, and several popular accusations praised Judge Ángel Hurtado’s instruction as rigorous and urged the court to reject the nullity requests.
- - Fiscal Julián Salto testified he was pressed late on March 13, 2024 to send emails because “the attorney general cannot wait,” confirming the plea overture came from the defense and noting he did not erase messages.
- - Testimony from Madrid prosecutors Pilar Rodríguez and Almudena Lastra highlighted internal frictions, including Rodríguez’s account that Lastra said “Those people leaked it,” as the court heard about efforts to correct press reports and the handling of communications.