The UCM, on Begoña Gómez’s software: “We don’t know of its existence”

The Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) does not have the software developed for the now-defunct extraordinary chair of Begoña Gómez, although it was expressly requested to do so, official sources confirm to ABC. University regulations establish that all material purchased or developed for the chair – the one that Sánchez’s wife or anyone else has directed over the past four years – is the property of the UCM and must therefore be stored and inventoried, but in the case of software that Juan Carlos Peinado is investigating, official Complutense sources assure ABC that not only do they not have it in their possession, but they do not even know exactly what it is: “We don’t even know it exists,” they say. claim that there is a purchase invoice for around 60,000 euros and that they believe, without being sure, that this may be the software that would have been used for a website created by the Chair extraordinary competitive social transformation, www.transformatsc.org, but now it is not operational. Last Monday a meeting of the Joint Monitoring Commission was held during which the liquidation of the presidency was formalized, which expired yesterday, although it had already been de facto canceled. It was created on October 30, 2020 for a renewable period of four years. After the meeting, a report was drawn up in which, according to ‘El Confidencial’, the management of the chair was invited to return “in the state in which they are, all the documentation, programs, platforms technological, software or devices susceptible to intellectual or industrial property which, on any medium whatsoever, have been designed or implemented with the resources of the Chair and which have not been delivered to the University Related news. Yes The government insists on the innocence of Begoña Gómez despite her latest accusation: “There is nothing” Pilar De la Cuesta Bolaños maintains that there is no report or testimony that proves the crimes committed by the wife of the president Begoña Gómez did not attend the meeting because she was on an international trip with Pedro Sánchez, so Professor José Manuel Ruano, co-director of the chair, did so on her behalf on Tuesday. Court of Instruction number 41 of Madrid, Juan Carlos Peinado, admitted Hazte Oír’s complaint against Begoña Gómez concerning the fate he reserved for the software that several companies developed for his chair. The program ended up in the hands of. a commercial company registered in the name of the wife of the President of the Government, hence the probable embezzlement. The complaint fell before court number 48, but the Madrid Provincial Court ruled that Peinado was competent to investigate, reports Isabel Vega. Thus, Peinado accused Begoña Gómez of two new crimes, embezzlement and professional intrusion, and summoned her to his court on November 18 at 11:30 a.m. to notify her of the accusation and summon her to testify, which in practice means that she will have to appear in court twice. UCM, the rightful owner of the software, is not represented as being wronged in the court of Juan Carlos Peinado. The institution requested it, before the rector, Joaquín Goyache, was accused of influence peddling, but the magistrate rejected it, considering it a premature request. For the moment, the vice-rector for institutional relations has decided not to try again. The intention of Sánchez’s wife was to renew the chair, and she requested it, but the UCM did not accept. As ABC moved forward, the decision had been made since last May and was due to the reputational cost that the prestigious academic institution was assuming due to the controversy generated by the investigation into Begoña Gómez for influence peddling.

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