Overview
- Spain’s Prosecutor’s Office, which filed the appeal Friday, asks the Constitutional Court to void the Supreme Court’s ruling that disqualified former attorney general Álvaro García Ortiz for two years.
- The Supreme Court convicted him in November for revealing that Alberto González Amador, partner of Madrid’s regional president, was willing to acknowledge tax fraud under investigation.
- The appeal says the court ignored exculpatory testimony from journalists who swore García Ortiz was not their source and faults a reading of source secrecy that, in effect, strips those statements of value.
- Prosecutors also argue a search of García Ortiz’s official office on October 30, 2024 was unlawful and that the resulting clue about deleted phone content was an illegally obtained piece of evidence.
- In a separate decision Friday, the prosecutorial inspectorate closed its internal case against Madrid’s chief prosecutor, Pilar Rodríguez, finding she did not steer the González Amador matter.