The popular accusation of the “Begoña Gómez case”, led by Hazte Oír, presented before the instructor at the hearing last Monday a summary of more than 30 pages on the specific facts with which they estimate that the president’s wife committed the crimes of influence peddling and corruption in business. In collaboration with his advisor in Moncloa, Cristina Álvarez, and Juan Carlos Barrabés.
This part located the beginning of this “plot of influences” when Gómez, after her husband came to power, “completely modified her professional activity.” Two months after the motion of censure, she joined the Business Institute as a director. There he met Barrabés through an Air Europa subsidiary (Wakalua), consolidating his “first contacts.”
Subsequently, as the accusation that he himself declared recalled, the businessman held several meetings in the presidential complex in which Gómez asked him to collaborate on the master’s degree that was the seed of the Complutense chair. From there, he collaborated in it as a professor, was part of the faculty of experts and they assured that he even lent facilities of his companies for activities of the chair.
According to the accusation, the chair was used as a “platform” by Pedro Sánchez’s wife. That he always had the help of Álvarez to “raise economic resources” for his activity at the UCM and “channel relations with companies and public administrations.” As well as for “the development” of the “digital platform” that is being investigated if it was appropriated.
He understands that the investigation has highlighted that Gómez enjoyed the position of “privileged access” to companies for “fund raising.” For the accusation, it is explained “only by the prevalence of her status as the president’s wife.”
The lawyer Pérez-Roldán pointed out that in exchange they would have achieved the possibility of meeting direct interests in the public sector. As an example, he presented as facts proven in the investigation that Reale Seguros entered into the sponsorship of the chair, putting up 60,000 euros, thanks to “the personal intermediation” of David Sanza, “political collaborator and friend” of Sánchez.
As for Indra, he pointed out that its directors who came as witnesses recognized that there was a meeting between Sánchez’s wife and Marc Murtra, then president. And one of the witnesses even admitted that “this type of treatment is not common for entities with which we collaborate through sponsorship.”
The same thing happened – the accusation maintained – with Telefónica. A meeting was held in which the “number two” and the one who was president, José María Álvarez-Pallete, appeared.
The association’s lawyer estimated the investment that these last two entities made to create the computer program at 128,000 euros.
On the other hand, this party insisted that Barrabés would have been able to obtain, between 2020 and 2021, 11 public contracts worth 21 million euros. And in two, for more than 8 million, which are in the hands of the European Prosecutor’s Office, having taken into account letters of recommendation from Gómez.