The prosecution asked the Supreme Court to annulment of conviction two years of disqualification from the former state attorney general, Álvaro García Ortiz, for disseminating confidential information about businessman Alberto González Amador. He maintains that violates his presumption of innocence, the rights of the defensecriminal legality and the right to effective judicial protection.
The lieutenant prosecutor of the Supreme Court, María Ángeles Sánchez Conde, assures that the judges They ignored the evidence ‘without any explanation’ that they would exonerate him and “create an offense to convict him” for having disseminated information that was no longer secret, according to RTVE. According to him, the offense of revealing secrets “does not concern the behavior of the official who reveals data that is already public”, since these had already been broadcast “by a plurality of media of communication”.
The prosecutor emphasizes that the magistrates proceeded an “incomplete selection of facts” by omitting key testimony from journalists, in their testimony as witnesses, when they claimed to have the email of the businessman’s tax fraud confession before it reached García Ortiz, according to the same source.
It is also referred to as “barely understandable” compensation of 10,000 euros, as well as an order to pay costs arising from the private accusation.
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