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The State Attorney General has already reached the Supreme Court

Álvaro García Ortiz arrived from the Attorney General’s Office in his official automotive at 9:42 to the door reserved for magistrates and authorities, the place a number of individuals welcomed him with applause and shouts of “encouragement.” Starting right this moment, the pinnacle of the general public ministry faces a trial for revealing secrets and techniques for allegedly leaking to the media an e mail linked to businessman Alberto González Amador, companion of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who was being investigated for tax fraud and who’s now being prosecuted for that crime and for doc falsification.

For the trial, the court docket has deliberate six days within the morning and afternoon, throughout which 40 witnesses will testify, amongst others, González Amador himself; the chief of workers of the Madrid president, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez; eight prosecutors; and 12 journalists who declare that they knew particulars of the e-mail earlier than it reached the arms of the lawyer normal, who faces a request for a sentence of as much as six years in jail and 12 years of disqualification.

In this Monday’s session, which is scheduled to begin at 10:00, 4 prosecutors will testify, together with García Ortiz’s right-hand man and the provincial chief prosecutor of Madrid, whom the Supreme Court additionally investigated, however in the end haven’t sat on the bench. The declaration of the lawyer normal because the accused is scheduled for the penultimate day of the trial, as soon as all of the proof has been taken.