Judge Beatriz Biedma, head of the Court of Instruction number 3 of Badajoz investigating David Sánchez, brother of the President of the Government, in the Diputación de Badajoz, has requested on Monday to the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard that investigates the “professional” and “the nature of them” relations between David Sánchez and that went to work at the end of 2023 in the Diputación de Badajoz with the family of Pedro Sánchez.
The magistrate points in the resolution that there is a record “in the corporate emails intervened to David Sánchez” that Carrero collaborated with him “on professional issues long before the incorporation” of the former worker of the headquarters of the presidency of the Government in the Diputación, as in financing with European Opera Young Funds.
At that time, Carrero was destined in an apartment of the presidency of the Government, already with Sánchez as president. From these messages a personal relationship “very close” is also derived before Carrero got the position of head of the Coordination and Cross -Bidding Activities Section. “Luis Carrero addresses David Sánchez as ‘Hermanito’. The above makes it very suspicious that Carrero has subsequently occupied a position in the Diputación where he works directly with Sánchez, ”says the magistrate. However, Biedma points out that the Carrero post does not depend on the office of performing arts – which directed the president’s brother – but is subordinated to the service of cultural, youth and sports activities. David Sánchez, declared in judicial headquarters on January 10 that Carrero worked with him in his office.
Among the “very significant” messages that appear in the resolution are those that Sánchez and Carrero were exchanged in October 2023, before the bases to be presented to the post were published. “David Sánchez sends an email to Luis Carrero where he says expressly: ‘As soon as you join I want to spend a week here to serve as support.’ And he replies: ‘I have no news or calendar, the last thing Candalijas told me [por entonces jefe de servicio de Actividades Culturales, Juveniles y Deportivas de la Diputación] It was throughout November. ” That month coincides with the date of publication of the base bases and the participation of Carrero in the selection process, “being the only applicant to the position.”
In the resolution, Biedma orders the UCO to thoroughly analyze the intervened corporate emails and “the documentation provided by the Diputación related to the creation and award” of the position, “specifically indicating if Carrero has cooperated in the public functions ”of David Sánchez” and “the possible existence of indications of crime in the creation and award of the position of head of section of centers and programs of cross -border activities” that it currently occupies.
The judge has also requested that the documentation that has already required presidency be examined – and that this has not yet sent – about “the positions that Carrero has occupied, the start and completion date of them, signed labor contracts and reason and date of date The extinction of its employment relationship, and that has not yet been sent to this Court. ” The magistrate has asked the UCO to “be personally commissioned” the completed of this information.
Biedma issued at the end of January a car in which, in addition to ordering several proceedings (such as the request to the presidency of Carrero’s labor contracts with the agency), he affirmed that “everything seems to indicate” that said position in the Diputación “was created to be assigned ”to David Sánchez. Also that after the appointment the functions of the position were accommodated to the “personal preferences” of the president’s family “so that daily assistance to his professional office was not necessary.” Now, in addition, the judge points out that “people would have been hired to trust him in performance” of his work. The magistrate added in that car that, although the allocation of this type of high -address positions is discretionary, in this case considers that there are indications of “arbitrariness”, which would constitute a crime of administrative prevarication. It should be noted that in the month in which this place was created (in October 2016), Pedro Sánchez resigned as general secretary of the PSOE after an internal fight of the party and lacked influence on Extremadura and national politics.
The judge justifies that the investigation commissioned to the UCO on the relationship between Sánchez and Carrero (and the position of the latter) is not a “casual finding” that indicates “indications of crimes” that are not related to those already investigated, but rather that These new “casual findings” seem to indicate that the position, in addition to being created for David Sánchez, was given the “appearance of legality by the corresponding officials, being intimately related to that purpose the fact that a person with whom she had professional relationships And apparently, also personal, according to his emails, and before that he was hired by the Diputación, he later occupied a newly created position that was awarded. ”
The investigation into David Sánchez, after the Pseudosindicato Manos Clean filed a complaint based on information published in the press that indicated that the brother of the president of the Government did not attend his job in the Diputación de Badajoz, which did not perform the functions for those that was hired as coordinator of the conservatories and that resided in Portugal to supposedly save taxes in Spain. The complaint also affirmed that David Sánchez owned a heritage valued at two million euros, disproportionate to his working life until then and the public salary he perceived. However, a UCO report, subsequently backed by the financial entity where the president of the president had deposited actions, ruled out the alleged illicit enrichment and, subsequently, the judge herself concluded that there was no fiscal crime either.
However, the document prepared by the Armed Institute already pointed out that the job that was awarded to David Sánchez as Coordinator of Conservatories of the Province of Badajoz was created in a hurry way in October 2016 without detailing the “primal needs “That they intended to cover with him. However, the researchers did not arrive in their analysis at any clear conclusion and, in fact, admitted that so far they had not been able to specify “who left the initiative” to create the position.
