The Ministry of Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Courts He has left the reasoned exhibition presented by Judge Juan Carlos Peinadoin which he requests from the Supreme Court the imputation of Minister Félix Bolaños for alleged crimes of embezzlement and false testimony in the ‘Begoña Gómez case’ for the hiring of your advisor, Cristina Álvarez. In fact, according to the department directed by Bolaños, the judicial application “It is based on an answer that the minister did not give”.
Sources of the Ministry explain that the judge imputes false testimony to Bolaños for having allegedly identified a person as responsible for the appointment of the advisor Cristina Álvarez, which He subsequently denied said appointment. However, the same sources underline that “The only positive” of filtration of the statement before the judge is that “Anyone can listen and contrast what the minister said with what collects the motivated exhibition”.
The ministerial headquarters He maintains that the judge asked about who supervised the job by Cristina Álvarez and that was the information provided by Bolaños. The person mentioned, they add, later confirmed in judicial headquarters that actually exercised supervision functions.
As for the accusation of embezzlement, the judge’s presentation argues that the General Secretariat of the Presidency He was responsible for the appointment of Álvarez and had to know the alleged irregular use of public funds for the benefit of private activities of Begoña Gómez, extreme that the Ministry denies categorically.