Overview
- Guardia Civil specialists ratified reports asserting a “preeminent participation” by Álvaro García Ortiz in the disclosure of an email from Alberto González Amador’s lawyer.
- Agents testified they could not recover key WhatsApp communications after all messages were deleted on October 16, 2024, and said a related Gmail account had been removed and the phone was changed days later.
- UCO explained they made full digital copies during the October 30, 2024 searches because filtering by date on site was technically unfeasible, with temporal limits applied later in analysis.
- The State Legal Service and the defense argued the searches and data scope were disproportionate or unlawful and pressed to exclude the seized digital material from the case.
- Teniente coronel Antonio Balas said the leaked text matched material held by the Fiscalía General, while multiple journalists testified they accessed the email’s information before or independently of García Ortiz as the trial moves toward his testimony and final submissions.