Begoña Gómez, wife of the President of the Government, will not go to the Courts of Plaza de Castilla so that Judge Juan Carlos Peinado specifies this Saturday his imputation of public funds related to the appointment in 2018 of Cristina Álvarez, his advisor in La Moncloa, and in the case that he will have confirmed to El País sources of La Moncloa.
The wife of the president of the Government “has resigned to go to the judicial headquarters,” explain the same sources, which need to attend face -to -face is “a right to be directly informed.” “Not going does not influence the procedure,” they value. “The lawyers are going to be,” they add. His defense, Antonio Camacho, is already at the judicial headquarters.
On Friday, in a new car, the magistrate maintained the summons of the investigated “and must appear assisted from their respective defenses.” Gomez’s decision not to go is protected by a circular of the Prosecutor’s Office. Among the reasons that are alleged are collected in the 4/1995 circular, of December 29, on the process before the Jury Court: the actions in the Court of Instruction. In that document, it is specified that, in the appearance “only the terms of such imputation and always before the presence of its lawyer will be specified.” “The presence of the accused is not indispensable. In the appearance, as will be seen immediately, instruction proceedings are not practiced and therefore, nor the declaration of the accused,” the text collects.
It is the fifth time that Gomez was summoned to appear in the Court of Instruction number 41 of Madrid, since this magistrate began investigating the president’s wife, in April 2024. At 18.00 the advisor Cristina Álvarez and the Government delegate in Madrid, Francisco Martín, who held the position of Secretary General of the Presidency from 2021 to 2023, on which the assistant of the Wife of the wife of the wife of the wife of Sánchez.
The procedure of this Saturday begins with the intervention of the prosecutor, then the accusations will speak, and finally the lawyer of the accused, who can ask for the dismissal. The parties can request the research proceedings that they consider and once it ends. The decision adopted by the magistrate combed in an upcoming resolution, whether the cause continues as if the archive can be used before the Provincial Court. Hairstyle, who works in guard, turns 71 today.
The ultra -Catholic organization will be heard, which coordinates popular accusations, has gathered about 100 people in the immediate vicinity in a concentration under the slogan “not to the corrupt.” A truck with an embedded screen circulates through the area in which images of the president’s wife are seen under the “Pentaimputed” label.
The Judge Peinado believes that there are indications of crime in the appointment of Gómez’s advisor if he helped Sánchez’s wife with her private activities at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), but her salary was paid with public funds. This procedure is separated from the main cause against Gomez, in which crimes of corruption in business, intrusion, influence peddling and improper appropriation are investigated.
This Friday, Judge Peinado specified in a new car “Various proceedings” that are still pending in this case, including the reception of a report of the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard on the emails provided by Juan Carlos Dadrio, who was a Vice Chancellor for Institutional Relations of the UCM. The list continues with an enumeration of the documentation that has not yet received, including the emails of the company Institute that the General Secretariat of Presidency or the “email relations” of the Institutional Mail of Gómez should be sent. Along with this, the magistrate continues to wait for the names of “the people who have authorized, approved and ordered the payment of the remuneration” of Cristina Álvarez and those of whom they have held the position of Secretary General of the Presidency of the Government from the date from November 11, 2018 until today.
The president’s wife had the possibility of accessing the courts for the garage for security reasons, something he had already done on the last four occasions. It was planned that the other two investigated would enter and go out through the ordinary doors of the courts, as on previous occasions, according to Efe Legal sources.
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