Judge Dana asked the Generalitat Valenciana for a report indicating “if it is possible” to recover WhatsApp messages from Carlos Mazón’s chief of staff that were deleted when regional secretary José Manuel Cuenca changed company telephone terminals last June.
The judge, according to an order issued this Monday, sent a letter to the General Directorate of Information Technology and Communications of the Generalitat to “indicate whether the recovery of WhatsApp messages exchanged” between Cuenca and Mazón on October 29, 2024 is feasible.
On the other hand, the judge agrees that, “in the event that there is a possibility of recovery”, the general management should be asked “not to proceed with the elimination of said messages”.
In addition, it also requests a report on the process of replacing José Manuel Cuenca’s cell phone that took place on June 15, 2025, “specifying the reasons why the replacement of the cell phone was requested and accepted by the official who carried out the operation, and whether the deletion and reinstallation of the WhatsApp application allows recovering on the device the undeleted messages, which can, in any case, be accessible in the web application on the computer, tablet or other devices.”
Mazón’s chief of staff explained in his first statement on November 26 that because he had not made a backup copy, his WhatsApp messages had been deleted.
In his second testimony, carried out on December 12 and agreed after learning of the messages exchanged with Salomé Pradas, in which the chief of staff gave orders to the then councilor, Cuenca said that he would consider accepting the possibility of voluntarily incorporating the messages once the Generalitat had confirmed whether or not they could be recovered.
Regarding the confrontation between Pradas and Cuenca, requested this Monday by one of the popular accusations appearing in the case, the magistrate indicates in the judgment that it will be resolved in another resolution.
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