Supreme Court Judge Ángel Hurtado tightens the fence around the actions of the attorney general, Alvaro Garcia Ortizafter the deletion of his terminal in the key days of the data leak of Isabel García Ayuso’s boyfriend, agreeing to a battery of procedures that includes the recovery of the content of his electronic devices. A task that falls to the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard, which has several alternatives to comply with the magistrate’s request.
The specialized agents of the Armed Institute have extensive experience in recovering the content of formatted terminals or deleted applications. It should be remembered that this unit assumes investigations related to organized crime or the most serious forms of crime, both at the national level and in its international ramifications. And that, within the framework of their investigations, They usually face situations like the one they now have on their hands with the attorney general.
It should be remembered that the agents seized several electronic devices from which they managed to extract “0 messages” in messaging applications of the State Attorney General. The data revealed by the UCO pointed to a possible deletion of messagestaking into account the data revealed thanks to the analysis of the mobile phone of the chief prosecutor of Madrid, Pilar Rodríguez. Several messages sent by García Ortiz on those dates did appear in said dump.
Thus, the first alternative they are considering to recover the deleted messages from García Ortiz’s phone is the use of recovery tools of digital content: even if a user manually deletes all messages from a terminal, a digital fingerprint always remains, easily recoverable through specialized software.
On the international scene there are several firms that develop these programs. There are some from the most basic ones, which allow conventional users to recover certain content deleted by mistake or accident, such as contacts or images; and other more developed software that, beyond being specifically intended for operating systems of Apple o Androidthey also filter by models or brands.
Terminals with physical damage
These recovery tools are also valid on terminals that have suffered serious physical damage, accidentally or intentionally. In these cases, researchers extract the storage systems and, to access their content, they incorporate them into new terminals or hardware that facilitate their tracking.
One of the most high-profile cases, police sources point out They got upwas the recovery of the phone of the missing Diana Quer in an estuary in Taragoña. Despite the serious damage suffered, the specialized agents of the Civil Guard – precisely those assigned to the UCO – managed to recover content that underpinned the complex investigations.
This would not be the case that investigators would face at the attorney general’s terminal, which no physical damage beyond the deletion of its content. The UCO agents, however, have been able to confirm based on the IMEI (identification) numbers that García Ortiz changed his phone a week after the Supreme Court opened a case against him.
The Civil Guard confirmed in its latest report that Álvaro García Ortiz changed his mobile phone terminal on October 23, a week after the high court agreed to open a case against him for a alleged crime of revealing secrets. The change occurred a few days before the registration took place in the office of the highest representative of the Public Ministry, dated October 29.
Cloud access
The second alternative to recover the contents of the attorney general’s phone is more complex, since depends on third parties. This option focuses on accessing possible messages stored in the cloud. Instant messaging application providers are not known for easily providing this information, not even when there is a judicial ruling to support it. The requirements are also lengthy in time because the headquarters of these companies are located abroad.
The UCO investigators will try to access the content of García Ortiz’s terminals by their own means, with the aim of transferring a new report to the Supreme Court within the framework of the investigations into the alleged leak regarding Alberto González Amador, partner of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
Source: www.vozpopuli.com
