The two projects of the Chair of Begoña Gómez, whose existence was unknown to the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), are directly Related to software development.
As the reason published just one week, the technological consultant Devoteam put himself in contacted on April 14 with the Vice -Rectorate of Technology of the UCM to ask him to arrive “instructions” in order to power continue with two jobs that had been executing for the extinct chair Extraordinary competitive social transformation.
However, at university There was no “prior knowledge” that these services had been commissioned To the aforementioned company, since it is not possible to make “delivery of documentation or any material” by the consultant, nor that he has claimed “amount or consideration” for it.
Following this confusing communication, a meeting was held in which two representatives of the company explained to the public university center that their collaboration generates “a monthly cost” and “They requested information” about the “continuity” of the projects.
Complutense computer scientists They could not access the content of these projectswhich were lodged on the internal server of the UCM. They were located together with other more than 9,000 projects that were not recorded either, but that, as confirmed to this newspaper Internal Fuentes of the University belong to the entire university community and are not of the chair.
But The statement yesterday by a Google director shed the light on the matter. Miguel Rodríguez Bueno sat against Judge Juan Carlos Peinado to explain how the company’s involvement was in the construction of the software and what he said allowed to join points.
Well, who was responsible at the technical level for the participation of the multinational in the creation of the platform, declared that They subcontracted Devoteam to create a “administration module” that the technological product was missing
This additional action assumed that, in addition to the initial 40,000 euros that dedicated to the “digital analytics”, Google ended up disburing 70,000 morewhich increased its investment in the program up to 110,000 euros.
The “Begoña Gómez case” instructor, after moving the UCM, claimed that the two Devoteam workers be identified with the intention – according to the legal sources to consult them – of call them as witnesses.
Which is expected that this diligence pending being agreed by the judge can offer more data on how the creation of the program was It is investigated whether the president’s wife appropriatedly appropriated of the government.
More than 40 meetings with Sánchez’s wife
Well assured, on the other hand, that He met with Pedro Sánchez’s wife and the coordinator of his chair, Blanca de Juan, up to 40 different occasions.
In ten of them, all held online, was also the Moncloa advisor charged with her involvement in Gomez’s professional life. In addition, he admitted that He spoke on his occasion with Cristina Álvarez about payments to other companies that provided services for the development of the platform.
The manager linked to the PSOE
It also appeared on behalf of Google this last Thursday Another manager involved in the creation of the program Computer of the Chair.
Miguel Escassi, who is head of Institutional Relations of the Technological Giant in our country, declared that the collaboration proposal for the platform came to him Through Jaime García CanteroAdvisor of the Chair to which the Judge Peinado will take a statement on May 28.
Escassi, who arrived in Google from the Ministry of Economy of the Socialist Vice President Nadia Calviño, said that at the first meeting to address her collaboration in the project was Gomez herself, but not José Manuel Ruanowhich was the other director of the chair on behalf of the UCM.
The sources present in the statement point to this newspaper that from their testimony was also extracted A contradiction. Juan declared at the time in judicial headquarters that the computer program was not ready until December 2023.
While Escassi assured yesterday before the instructor that It ended in September Of that year, at which time they sent the code to the Complutense so that they could already accommodate it in their system.