Between 13.00:13.30 p.m. and 20:XNUMX p.m. last Wednesday, July XNUMX, sitting at a table at the Rosewood Villa Magna Hotel in Madrid in front of the terrace window, “in the interior, specifically, on the island in front of the entry », were seen chatting casually by two eyewitnesses. It was discussed, as this newspaper announced yesterday, and as confirmed again by two different sources, the next state attorney general, Álvaro García Ortiz, and the former president of the extinct Banca d'Andorra, Higini Cierco. The Hotel Villa Magna is considered a meeting point for the business-political elite of the Principality. Two different sources, which are not related to each other, but which coincided in time and place in the restaurant of the Madrid hotel, recognized both protagonists. Later – they told ABC, each of these witnesses separately – they saw how García Ortiz and Cierco left the place on their way to Serrano street. According to business sources, the former banker is a regular customer of the Hotel Villa Magna, close to the main office of the State Attorney General's Office, located on Calle Fortuny in Madrid. García Ortiz and Higini Cierco deny the meeting After several attempts by this newspaper to locate García Ortiz, he contacted ABC when it published the first edition of the newspaper on Friday and denied the existence of the meeting, a version that was included in later editions and at ABC.es. The former banker also addressed this newspaper to deny the existence of such a reunion. Yesterday, the State Attorney General's Office published a note stating that "this information is totally and absolutely false." In the statement, the Public Ministry defended that "Álvaro García Ortiz has never held any meeting" with Cierco. Nor with 'anyone from the environment of the alleged bank; neither in the place and date indicated nor in any other». For his part, Higini Cierco told ABC that he does not know Álvaro García Ortiz. "He never exchanged a word with him and I didn't even know who he was until I read the information," he says. “The attorney general himself denied the existence of that meeting. Now I deny it on all its points myself. In a card sent to the newspaper, the information is "surprising" and it is stated that it "damages" his reputation. Likewise, he thanks this newspaper for granting him the "opportunity to deny it in each and every one of its extremes."
