Álvaro García Ortiz: “With my conviction we have all lost, including the Supreme Court”

The first thing Álvaro García Ortiz did on November 20, when the State Attorney's Office informed him that the Supreme Court was condemning him for revealing secrets to two years of disqualification, was call his wife, also a prosecutor. “There was a moment of silence until he told me: 'I can't believe it,'” says the former State Attorney General in the first interview granted after his conviction, which was broadcast this Sunday night on the program Lo de Évole on La Sexta. García Ortiz says that he always thought that the process against him for leaking data about the boyfriend of the Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, accused of tax fraud of 350,000 euros, would come to nothing because "there was no burden of proof." But throughout the judicial proceedings he experienced other moments that, as he confesses, went beyond what he could imagine. Like when the UCO searched his office by order of the investigator of the case, Ángel Hurtado: “It was almost delirious, I didn't believe what was happening.” After breaking the news to his wife, he says, his son called him and asked him why he had been convicted. “And my answer was, ‘I don’t know.’” The Supreme Court, in an unusual action in a case like this, had made public the ruling and not the motivation for the sentence, which took almost three weeks. “It took me 20 days to find out while the entire country made a political-legal-personal speculation about what the reason was,” he laments. Throughout the hour and a half of the interview broadcast