The Madrid Bar Association denounces the Prosecutor's Office for revealing confidential data about Ayuso's partner in an "unprecedented event"

Angela Martialay Madrid

Madrid

Updated Monday, March 18, 2024-17:35

• Courts The attorney general gave the order to disseminate the note with the secret conversations of the Prosecutor's Office with Ayuso's boyfriend

• Justice The Bar Association refuses to sign a statement with the attorney general to settle the leak scandal against Ayuso

Institutional conflict of the first magnitude.

The

Illustrious Bar Association of Madrid

(ICAM) announced this Monday that it will file a complaint against the Prosecutor's Office for revealing "confidential" data between the lawyer of

Alberto González Amador

's businessman and the prosecutor investigating him for alleged tax fraud.

This was agreed by the Governing Board after the meeting held this Monday and was announced by Dean

Eugenio Ribón

at a press conference.

The complaint will be filed for crimes of infidelity in the custody of documents and disclosure of secrets classified in article 417 of the

Penal Code

.

The partner of the president of the Community of Madrid is being investigated for two tax crimes and another for document falsification.

In the words of the dean, the "right of defense is sacred", a "basic piece of the rule of law" and violates the "right to confidentiality."

The ICAM considers that the dissemination by the Public Prosecutor's Office of the specific content of communications, in this case emails, that were maintained between the lawyer of Ayuso's partner, the prosecutor

Carlos Neira

, and the prosecutor of the case,

Julián Salto

, directed to reach an agreement of conformity, violate the right of defense.

Hours after the press office of the Superior Prosecutor's Office of the Community of Madrid sent - by direct instruction of the State Attorney General, as revealed by

EL MUNDO

- to the media the press release with the negotiation held with the lawyer of businessman Alberto González Amador, the ICAM issued a harsh statement in which it maintained that the events were "extremely serious."

The college of lawyers understands that the Madrid Provincial Prosecutor's Office revealed "specific data from some investigative proceedings" through a statement and stressed that among those leaks were dates, conversations and meetings that represented a "break in the professional secrecy that protects communications." of lawyers".