This Tuesday, the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard took dozens of emails five other positions in the Provincial Council of Badajoz. The aim? To study how the hiring of David Sanchezbrother of Pedro Sánchez, by this provincial body.
This is what sources close to the investigations tell EL ESPAÑOL. This Tuesday was the third time that the UCO went to the headquarters of the Provincial Council of Badajoz to take e-mails.
On this occasion, according to sources consulted by this media, the agents received emails dating back to the entire year preceding the call for the position won by David Sánchez.
The judge in charge of investigating this case, Beatriz Biedma, president of the Court of Instruction number 3 of the capital of Badajoz, seeks to verify whether some prefer treatment, influence peddling or concert in favor of hiring the brother of the President of the Government.
The first time the UCO went to the Provincial Council, the agents seized emails from the professional account of the latter and of the president of the provincial body, Miguel Angel Gallardowho is in turn secretary general of the PSOE of Extremadura. And four other accusations.
In addition to the allegations of influence peddling, the magistrate is investigating the alleged crimes of embezzlement, fraud against the public treasury and prevarication.
On the other hand, this same Tuesday, while the UCO agents were inspecting the Provincial Council, the Provincial Court of Badajoz was studying the request, made by several of the people concerned, to leave aside the first emails of the file. The decision will be known in the coming days.
In the meantime, the judge has ordered more to be collected e-mails This helps to clarify how the signing of David Sánchez took place. Now, the Provincial Council, once again, will resort to this last diligence and sources of the organization emphasize to EL ESPAÑOL that the creation of the position that the brother of the one who would later become president of the government would end up assuming responded to the “discretionary power” of the Administration. “Therefore, there was no influence peddling of any kind,” they affirm.
David Azaga
Professional musician and known by the nickname David AzagraSince 2017, Pedro Sánchez’s younger brother has been an employee of the Provincial Council of Badajoz as coordinator of the Badajoz conservatories, director of the municipal orchestra and head of the project Young OperaFor this reason he receives around 55,000 euros per year.
The union’s complaint Clean hands which gave rise to this legal case accused him of “get paid without going to work”despite not having authorized teleworking and not clocking in.
However, the documentation sent to the judge by the Provincial Council of Badajoz justifies these extremes by the fact that Azagra occupies a “management position”, for which the remote working modality is not designed and does not require schedule control.
During its first visit to the headquarters of the Provincial Council of Badajoz, the UCO recovered thousands of emails stored in the professional accounts of several people. Among others, those of David Sánchez and Gallardo. Later, it had to go a second time to the same building to ask for more information. e-mailswhose dump had been thwarted by a computer error.
Likewise, as reported by EL ESPAÑOL, the Ministry of Finance has just revealed to the judge what three tax inspectors have prepared a report that exonerated David Sanchez from tax crimes.
The instructor had received it months ago, but the document did not bear any signature, so Biedma ordered the Public Treasury to clarify which officials had written it.
tax crime
Manos Cleans’ complaint also accused Sánchez’s brother of reside in a mansion in the Portuguese town of Elvasclose to the border with Portugal, to “pay less tax”. The Public Treasury, however, ruled out in this report that these events constitute a tax offence.
The Provincial Council of Badajoz, for its part, has called a commission of inquiry into the hiring of Azagra. Its final report, approved thanks to the majority of the PSOE, with the PP against, confirmed that David Sánchez taxed as a non-resident in Spain.
So when you live in Portugal you don’t pay IRPF (Personal Income Tax), but Yes, you are taxed as a non-resident.according to this document, published by EL ESPAÑOL. Shortly after, the Treasury, responding to a request from the judge, sent the Badajoz court the report that ruled out tax crime.
But when it was sent without a signature, Beatriz Biedma asked to know the identity of the people who had prepared it. And she recently got a response from the Treasury, which revealed which three inspectors had prepared it.
