The magistrate of the Supreme Court Ángel Hurtado, instructor of the investigation opened by revelation of secrets to the State Attorney General, has already received a response from both Google and WhatsApp on the request he made to try to recover the content of the mobile phone of Álvaro García Ortiz, erased by this after being prosecuted. The intention of Hurtado when requesting the collaboration of both companies is to recover the information sent and received by the telephone numbers of the Attorney General between March 8 and 14, 2024, dates in which the mail of González Amador’s lawyer was leaked in which he admitted that his client had committed two fiscal crimes and offered the Prosecutor’s Office a pact that fought him from jail. Legal sources point out that the magistrate has not yet accessed the folders with the information sent by the two companies, but the mere fact that they have responded to their request and have submitted documentation already considers it a success, given the doubts that were in that Google and WhatsApp went to attend their request.
The information provided by the two companies will be studied in two separate pieces, which have been declared secret. On Wednesday the judge opened the first case and commissioned the Civil Guard to analyze the documentation sent by the Irish authorities. At first he requested information from both Google and WhatsApp from the Irish justice, but warned him that he had to derive the request on the courier platform to the United States.
The United States response, to which WhatsApp data was claimed, was received yesterday through the Ministry of Justice and consists of two ZIP folders, to which two writings accompany, one of them in English. The judge has commissioned the Central Operating Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard to analyze the information, as it had already established that it should be done in “case it was successful, as it seems to have been, the Rogatory Commission released”, says the instructor. He has also urged the UCO to inform him of progress with a minimum period of five days.
