After having attended the trial five times in almost silence with his lawyers, the state attorney general took the stand this afternoon to defend his innocence. Álvaro García Ortiz denied having leaked the email in which the lawyer of Alberto González Amador, Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s partner and tried for tax fraud, admitted to the Prosecutor’s Office the commission of two crimes against the Treasury. He did not send it to Cadena SER, the first media outlet that referred to that email, nor to any other journalist, García Ortiz assured. As he did throughout the investigation, he admitted his responsibilities in the other document on which the investigation focuses, the press release issued to refute the falsehoods that Ayuso’s entourage was spreading. But he denied that this statement contained personal information about González Amador that should have been omitted. “The truth is not filtered, the truth is defended,” he said at the end of his statement.
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