Begoña Gomezwife of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, bought the apartment in Mojácar (Almería), a property that the couple used before arriving in Moncloa, from the family business that managed the gay saunas. This is stated in the official documentation in the Property Register to which OKDIARIO had access. The purchase and sale operation This happened in 2013before Sánchez became secretary general of the PSOE. In this way, the couple avoided being linked to Sánchez for the use of this property with the controversial business of his father-in-law. Sabiniano Gomez Serranorecently deceased.
Specifically, according to the Land Registry, Begoña Gómez, currently under investigation for the alleged commission of crimes of influence peddling and corruption in businessacquired this property in April 2013 from the commercial entity San Bernardo 36 SLthe management company of the gay saunas that were part of the sexually-charged business that Sánchez’s stepfather ran with his brothers, Begoña Gómez’s uncles.
In fact, at the time of sale, it was indicated Francisco Enrique Gomez Serranobrother of Sabiniano, as sole administrator of San Bernardo 36 SL, who had acquired this property in Mojácar in 2001The dismissal of Francisco Enrique would come shortly after the said sale to Begoña Gómez in April 2013, thus becoming the sole administrator Angel Prieto Pazaccording to the Official Journal of the Trade Register of June 25, 2013.
Begoña Gomez, “married with separation of property” (marriage with Sánchez dates back to 2006), appears as single buyer of the property, which “was acquired privately, by way of sale”, according to the deed authorized by the notary. dated April 11, 2013.
At that time, Pedro Sanchez he was already a deputy of the PSOE in the Congress for the Madrid constituency, since in January 2013 he had taken the minutes left by the former minister Cristina Narbonne to occupy a place on the Nuclear Safety Council. In April 2013, there were already movements within the PSOE to seek an alternative direction to Alfredo Perez Rubalcabawho in these weeks has agreed to choose the new secretary general in the primaries to calm the internal waters. The name of Pedro Sánchez was already heard in Congress as a possible candidate for these primaries. And, although the option of Eduardo Madina was gaining strength, it was finally Sánchez who ended up beating him and José Antonio Pérez Tapias, in July 2014.
Rooftop swimming pool
The house that Begoña Gómez bought in Mojácar (Almería) from the family business is located on the fourth floor and consists of: dining room, three bedrooms, kitchen, two bathrooms and terraceaccording to the information from the Land Registry. The property has a usable area of 73.20 square meters. In addition, it has a storage room whose approximate useful surface area is 4.80 square meters. Currently, the Victoria Building residential complex – built in 2001 – has, according to the announcements of real estate companies, a shared rooftop swimming pool, gym, sauna and jacuzzi.
The apartment is located 50 meters from the city center and 5 minutes from the beach, the ads say. Currently, an apartment with similar characteristics in the same building has a market price of between 100,000 and 169,000 eurosThe amount for which Begoña Gómez bought this house from the family gay sauna business is unknown.
It should also be noted that the date of purchase of this property by Begoña Gómez coincides with the beginning of its relationship with the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) as a teacher. As the UCM explains, through the transparency portal, Sánchez’s wife “began her collaboration with this university as co-director of continuing education studies for fundraising technicians during the 2012/13 and 2013/14 courses». Well, these studies lasted 72 hours. The first of these was delivered between April and June 2013.according to the promoting entities, namely the Spanish Fundraising Association (AEFr), to which Gómez was associated as director of Inmarkand the Complutense University. Then her meteoric career will come here as co-director of two masters and a chair in competitive social transformation (TSC), currently under judicial investigation.
Until 2018, it was common to see Begoña Gómez and her husband, accompanied by their two daughters, walking around Mojácar and going to a popular beach bar in the municipality of Almería, the Aku Akuwhere the family formed a close friendship with the owners. However, once Sánchez became president of the government, the anonymity the family enjoyed disappeared and Moncloa advised them not to enjoy this holiday residence for security reasons.
In an interview in 2015, the socialist leader said that if there was “a place to get lost”, that destination was, in his opinion, Mojácar. “Always Mojacar”speaks about this Andalusian municipality where his wife had bought a property two years earlier from the family business of gay saunas. In addition, this city in Almeria made headlines in May 2023 with the arrest of two PSOE candidates for their alleged involvement in a vote to buy land.
