Popular accusations of Begoña affair They will request the summons of Judge Juan Carlos Peinado to testify Juan José Guemes Barrios.
This Wednesday, the magistrate —who investigates the wife of Pedro Sánchez, Begoña Gomez— was questioned as a witness Sonsoles Gil de Antuñano Fernández-Monteshead of human resources at the Business Institute (IE).
And this directive names Güemes as the one who ordered him, in 2018, to hire Begoña Gómez, shortly after Sánchez became president of the government. Now the popular accusations in this case will call for Peinado to subpoena this manager to testify.
Before joining EI in 2010 as president of its Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Juan José Güemes Barrios served as Minister of Employment and Women and, later, of Health in governments of Esperanza Aguirre (PP) at the head of the Community of Madrid.
Luis María Pardo, party director Justice Europeone of the charges, has already made this request. However, because popular actions are grouped under the legal direction of Voiceit will be the lawyer of this party who must sign the document requesting this diligence.
However, as sources present during Gil de Antuñano’s interrogation reveal to EL ESPAÑOL, Peinado asked the witness to reveal to him what Güemes’ second last name is – she called him by his first name and his first name – and the judge noted it. And this already suggests the judge’s interest in this person to clarify the conditions in which the signature of Begoña Gómez by IE was conceived.
Specifically, Pedro Sánchez’s wife was hired to run the IE Africa Centera branch of the Instituto de Empresa dedicated to the African continent.
The director of human resources of the Business Institute (IE), Sonsoles Blanca Gil de Antuñano (i).
In fact, as published by EL ESPAÑOL, this Thursday, after Sonsoles Gil de Antuñano’s statement, the judge asked to know in which accounts the funds were deposited. 55,000 euros annual payroll that Begoña Gómez received from IE.
The call Begoña affair It starts with the union complaint Clean handswhich attributes alleged crimes of influence peddling and corruption in private companies to Sánchez’s wife.
Now, although these events are not recounted in this complaint, Peinado is investigating, among other things, the beginning of Gómez’s professional career at IE and, later, as co-director of the Extraordinary Chair of Competitive Social Transformation of IE. Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).
Indeed, the rector of the UCM, Joaquin Goyacheis also listed as under investigation in this case, as is the businessman. Juan Carlos Barrabéswho was a master’s professor associated with the said chair.
The Manos Cleans complaint actually indicated that Gómez had signed two expressions of interest (sort of letters of recommendation) in favor of a UTE (temporary union of companies) in which a company from the Barrabés Group participated. Ultimately, this SEI received both awards for providing these documents.
However, this part of the Begoña affair was left in the hands of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, as it affects EU funds. Today, Peinado continues to investigate other awards received by Barrabés from various public administrations; from Madrid City Hall to the Superior Sports Council (CSD).
