In Spain's Supreme Court, several journalists testified that they learned of an email regarding the tax fraud of Isabel Díaz Ayuso's boyfriend before Álvaro García Ortiz received it. The testimonies bolster the attorney general's defense in the revelation of secrets trial. The November 11, 2025 session featured tensions in interrogations.
The trial against Spain's Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, for an alleged crime of revelation of secrets continued on November 11, 2025, in the Supreme Court. The case revolves around the leak of an email sent on February 2, 2024, by the lawyer of Alberto González Amador, boyfriend of Madrid's president Isabel Díaz Ayuso, admitting "ciertamente se han cometido dos delitos contra la Hacienda Pública" to negotiate a plea deal and avoid prison for tax fraud.
José Manuel Romero, former deputy director of El País and current deputy director of eldiario.es, testified that he "nunca tuve el mail del 2 de febrero", though he knew of the plea offer from sources in the Community of Madrid Prosecutor's Office on March 12, 2024, a day before García Ortiz received the email at 21:59. Romero went to a notary to record phone messages in favor of García Ortiz's defense and confirmed that, before the attorney general accessed the email, González Amador's admission of crimes was already being mentioned.
Miguel Ángel Campos from Cadena SER stated he gained access to the email around 15:00 on March 13, 2024, in his source's office, who allowed him to copy the content but not publish it initially due to data that "afectan a la intimidad". After El Mundo's report on the fiscal negotiation at 21:30, Campos persuaded his source and broadcast the information at 23:25, including the key phrase. He denied García Ortiz was his source and recounted a failed call to him at 21:38.
Three El País journalists—Fernando Peinado, Berta Ferrero, and Juan José Mateo—corroborated the prior knowledge from March 12 via a notarial act of an internal newsroom chat. Romero's interrogation was tense, with interventions from tribunal president Andrés Martínez Arrieta, who clarified: "This is not a trial of journalism".
Eugenio Ribón, dean of the Madrid Bar Association, criticized the "inusitada gravedad" of the Prosecutor's Office press note on March 14, 2024, ordered by García Ortiz to refute falsehoods from Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Ayuso's chief of staff. Agustín Hidalgo, the Prosecutor's data protection head, supported García Ortiz's periodic deletion of electronic devices to prevent security breaches.
The testimonies, favorable to the defense, precede García Ortiz's and UCO agents' appearance on November 12.
