{"id":471469,"date":"2025-10-03T16:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T16:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/471469\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T16:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T16:08:11","slug":"spains-attorney-general-will-stand-trial-over-leaks-involving-partner-of-leading-political-opposition-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/471469\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain&#8217;s Attorney General will stand trial over leaks involving partner of leading political opposition figure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>THE Supreme Court has announced a November trial of Spain\u2019s Attorney General over alleged leaking details about the partner of a leading opposition figure.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>40 witnesses have been ordered to testify in the trial of Alvaro Garcia Ortiz.<\/p>\n<p>He is accused of leaking secret case files about the partner of Isabel Diaz Ayuso, who is the high-profile Partido Popular president of the Community of Madrid.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"490\" height=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/amador-leaks-490x298.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-439768\"  \/><strong>AMADOR- LEAK PROBE <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The hearings will start on November 3.<\/p>\n<p>A draft agreement had been struck between the public prosecutor\u2019s office and the lawyer acting for businessman Alberto Gonzalez Amador- Ayuso\u2019s boyfriend.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow it got leaked to the media last year which said Amador\u2019s lawyer proposed a plea deal in which his client would admit to alleged tax offences in exchange for avoiding a criminal trial.  <\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court said it would prosecute Garcia Ortiz for the crime of revealing secrets \u2018for allegedly having provided a media outlet with the confidential contents of an email\u2019 from Amador\u2019s lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia Ortiz has denied leaking any information about Amador, either personally or through his office.<\/p>\n<p>The Partido Popular has demanded Garcia Ortiz\u2019s resignation and accuses allies of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez of organising the leak. <\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court began investigating Garcia Ortiz following a complaint by Amador, whose health company\u2019s earnings soared during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021.<\/p>\n<p>A dozen journalists are slated as witnesses in the trial, as well as Alberto Gonzalez Amador.<\/p>\n<p>Click here to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theolivepress.es\/spain-news\/category\/other-news\/crime-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crime &amp; Law News<\/a> from The Olive Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE Supreme Court has announced a November trial of Spain\u2019s Attorney General over alleged leaking details about the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[156994,156995,156996,41874,188,2000,299,156997,156998,18104,8626,285,104,15985,18106],"class_list":{"0":"post-471469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-alberto-gonzalez-amador","9":"tag-alleged-leaks-trial","10":"tag-alvaro-garcia-ortiz","11":"tag-attorney-general","12":"tag-crime","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-isabel-diaz-ayuso","16":"tag-media-leaks","17":"tag-news-spain","18":"tag-newspaper","19":"tag-politics","20":"tag-spain","21":"tag-supreme-court","22":"tag-the-olive-press"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115311104337977410","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}