A Madrid judge has dismissed the complaint filed by Vox against Begoña Gómez for alleged influence peddling in the creation and development of a chair at the Complutense University. The order by Judge Coro Monreal concludes that the wife of the President of the Government could not exercise “any influence” on the official who issued the resolution mentioned in the complaint.
This complaint, which is being processed before a court other than that of Judge Juan Carlos Peinado, was rejected by the judge in a resolution according to which Begoña Gómez “can be presumed to have some professional experience developed at the Complutense University of Madrid itself, even before her husband was president of the government of the nation, a family relationship that, by itself, would not justify the existence of predominance in accordance with the cited jurisprudential doctrine.
The complaint by the far-right party referred to the creation and development of the chair that the wife of the president of the government co-directs at the Complutense University of Madrid, and from which she allegedly benefited “for personal purposes, through the company Transforma TSC.
Vox highlighted the use of public funds for the development of a management and impact measurement platform for small and medium-sized enterprises of the UCM, which Gómez would then have used for a company in his name.
The president of the Court of Instruction number 31, where the complaint was filed, concludes that “it does not appear from the procurement file that it was drawn up outside the rules governing public procurement.”
