David Ciercothe senior government official at the head of the state-owned enterprise Rouge.es when Pedro Sánchez’s wife, Begoña Gomezsent letters of recommendation about the company Carlos Barrabésthe brain of his president at Complutense, admitted this Thursday in the Senate that he knew the businessman enjoying for these contracts dating “more than 20 years ago”. Concretely, his conglomerate obtained three lots (on two contracts) for more than 10.2 million euros.
Asked by the PP about his relationship with the Aragonese businessman during the session of commission of inquiry Koldo affair and branches (of Begoña Gómez case At Delcy affair) held today in the Upper House, Cierco said dismissively: “I have known Mr. Barrabés for more than 20 years because anyone who has worked in the world of technology and does not know Mr. Barrabés… is like “Being in the world of football and not knowing Raúl Blanco”he said, referring to former Real Madrid captain Raúl González Blanco.
“There is no merit in knowing Mr. Barrabés while it has been one of the technological references of this country”, added the appearing party. But it was the group of the Aragonese businessman which finally obtained the Red.es contracts, the documents of which The call for tenders were signed by David Cierco himself.
OKDIARIO revealed last June that the relationship between Cierco and Barrabés is a close friendship, with the two sharing stays Benasque (Huesca)an idyllic mountain refuge, a destination for sports enthusiasts, in the heavenly setting of the Pyrenees. Barrabés, originally from this town, opened his first business there, a ski and mountain equipment store, and is the nerve center of his business conglomerate there.
In July 2020, just a month later After the public company Red.es launched a tender for two contracts for digital training of young people and the unemployed, Begoña Gómez and the Cierco associate had a brief but very meaningful conversation through their social networks , Who denotes their complicity and this takes on a renewed meaning today.
“In Benasque with fresh and green. “Nature is still immense there,” writes Barrabés. July 2, 2020accompanying the message with a photo of the Pyrenean landscape. Cierco replied: “Wow! What memories Carlos. Let’s see if I can arrange to come back. “A big hug,” he told the Aragonese businessman.
In his case, David Cierco was director of Red.es until May 2021that is to say during the development of specifications, calls for tenders and the development of procedures. However, the award was given a few months later to his successor as head of the organization, Alberto Martinez Lacambrawho stressed that he had signed the award “by mandate of the Board of Directors”, because if he had done it otherwise, he could have procrastinated.
Precisely, during his appearance before the same Commission, Martínez Lacambra designated Cierco as the person responsible for these contracts, recalling that it was during his time that Red.es received letters of recommendation from Begoña Gómez for the hiring of Barrabés .
Prieto remains in government
Cierco – although obliged by law to tell the truth as a participant in a commission of inquiry – maintained this Thursday that He had no trace of these letters.. In addition, he acknowledged having signed the specifications and having submitted them to the Board of Directors, but he insisted several times on the fact that it was the director of Digital Economy of Red.es who ‘had written, thus fulfilling the responsibility of this subordinate. This director, Luis Prietocontinues to maintain his position at Red.es, dependent on the Ministry of Economy of the government of Pedro Sánchez.
Likewise, regarding his relationship with Pedro Sánchez, Cierco went so far as to say first of all that he did not know him. However, he later admitted that he agreed with him “working on an electoral program” of the Socialist Party. The former director of Red.es also admitted that he was a PSOE candidate for Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid)as this newspaper reported.
Last May, OKDIARIO published an image of the two working together in Ferraz in 2009. Sánchez and Cierco, both from the former minister’s orbit Miguel Sébastienwith whom they had already collaborated on their entrance hall The 2004 Economists were appointed by Ferraz in 2009 as federal coordinators of two of the six sectoral organizations created. Pedro Sánchez was responsible for the sectoral organization of Entrepreneurs, self-employed workers and social economyand David Cierco, the Information society. The work of these sectoral groups was reported in the management report presented by the party leadership to the 38th Congress that the socialists celebrated in Seville in February 2012.
