David Sánchez Pérez-Castejón landed in the Badajoz Provincial Council on July 3, 2017nine months after the provincial body first proposed the creation of a new position of conservatory coordinator, with the rank and salary of “senior management”when until then those responsibilities They were being assumed by a lower-ranking official, from subgroup A2as revealed by the investigations carried out so far by the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard.
The creation of the position was prepared “urgently” and only six days after the socialist president of the institution, Miguel Ángel Gallardo, another of the accused, had told the director of Culture that their requests to hire more workers – without Pedro Sánchez’s brother still being included – were excessive with “it seems to me that you are asking for a lot of personnel.” Elisa Moriano replied that it was limited to an “internal restructuring” that it would not entail “much cost”, as reflected in the emails intercepted by the agents.
However, on October 11, a technical advisor, by order of his superior, In an email, he demands that Moriano prepare a justifying report in his Culture area.about the position of conservatory coordinator to create that it must be sent “within two days” as this is an “urgent” request. The important thing, he points out, is that the job functions to be carried out in the role are clear: “What you can manage and coordinate.”
The person in charge of Culture, also accused in the “David Sánchez case”, passes the task to the director of the Badajoz higher conservatory, Evaristo Valentí, who will be the first to testify as a witness on Wednesday before the instructor Beatriz Biedma and that sources familiar with the case told LA RAZÓN that it could be “decisive” in determining whether there are solid indications of prevarication.
In the email with which he assigns him such a task, Moriano points out that “They have decided that I can intervene in the Professional as well”in reference to the fact that the responsibility of the position will also encompass the Professional Conservatory, which for the UCO indicates that Moriano “you are following instructions from someone with that capacity” to make such a decision.
Valentí complies with the task and indicates in the email in which he sends the requested report that he has stated that the coordination is about two conservatories, despite the fact that “the text of the request does not imply that” and Take the opportunity to point out the other “essential needs” that the musical center he directs suffers from. This contrasts with the fact that during a negotiation table meeting to address this and other changes in the employment relationship, when reluctance to create this senior management position that was later occupied by the brother of the Chief Executive was raised by the representative of the CSIF union.Moriano justifies it by saying that it was a proposal from the “director of the higher conservatory”, offloading the responsibility to Valentí with a version that is refuted by the exchange of emails.
On the other hand, the director of the other conservatory, the Professional, Yolanda Sánchez, also called to appear as a witness on Wednesday before the judgesends its corresponding justifying report of what will be the tasks that the new coordinator will assume at its center. These would have been, therefore, David Sánchez’s professional duties (until his position changed subsequently).
Among others, the “carrying out cycles of concerts and performances”, “coordination and management” of the two conservatories and their resources, and the “conduction of the symphony orchestra”. With the latter, as the investigations revealed, he only complied, acting as orchestra director, a total of six times in two years, between 2018 and 2020.
The position was finally awarded to him on May 19, 2017 and in October 2022 it was “transformed”without a public competition, as head of the Performing Arts Office, according to the Provincial Council, to promote the Young Opera program, which began in 2019 and in three years carried out three productions. Although they defend that it was only a change in the name, it no longer had the two conservatories as “subordinates.”
► Three intense days of statements, from witnesses and defendantsbefore the instructor that the sources of the popular accusation consulted by LA RAZÓN see “keys” to elucidate if there are reasons for the brother of Pedro Sánchez, the socialist president of the Badajoz Provincial Council or senior officials of the Badajoz organization end up sitting on the bench accused of one or more crimes for the hiring and employment relationship with the musician.
► On the first day, on Wednesday, to the three conservatory directorsof whom the brother of the President of the Government was the hierarchical superior, a testimonial will be conducted. Also to the Treasury experts who sent an unsigned report that denied fiscal irregularities in the situation of the main defendant.
► Between Thursday and Fridaythe nine investigated will pass in front of Judge Beatriz Biedma, including the brother of the PSOE leader and Gallardo, also secretary of the party in Extremadura, and the former director of Culture to whom Sánchez depended, Elisa Moriano.