Begoña Gomezwife of Pedro Sánchez, gave judge Juan Carlos Peinado several emails which reveal the efforts made by María Cristina Álvarez, Director of Programs of the General Secretariat of the Presidency, at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).
Gómez later co-directed two chairs at UCM. And one of the four alleged crimes Peinado is investigating him for is that of diversionafter the Hazte Oír association, in a complaint, accused the businesswoman of the same thing, for having proposed through a company that she owned a software paid by Complutense.
With these emails, Gómez’s defense attempts to demonstrate that this situation did not occur, but that The technical issues related to this digital tool have been agreed with the UCM itself.. And they were carried out according to the center’s directives.
Email provided to the judge by Begoña Gómez’s defense which shows that the UCM urged Sánchez’s wife to sign the technical prescriptions document.
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One of these emails was sent in May 2023 by the management of the UCM School of Government to Begoña Gómez, María Cristina Álvarez and José María Ruano de la Fuente, the professor who, together with Sánchez’s wife , headed the chair.
A member of the University staff attaches a sheet of technical requirements. He then invites one of his two co-directors to sign it. In fact, Sánchez’s wife was one of them. And he signed it.
But in a e-mail previous, from April 2023, with the same sender and the same recipients, It is specified that the document “must be signed by Begoña”. With these two emails, Begoña Gómez’s lawyer, Antonio Camacho, tries to deflate the alleged crime of professional intrusion, another of the crimes that Hazte Oír’s complaint attributed to his client and for which she is currently the subject of ‘an investigation.
Indeed, the defense lawyer cites as an example other Complutense masters in which his co-directors Staff members outside the university, such as Sánchez’s wife, acted similarly.
However, the emails provided to the judge by Camacho also show that it was María Cristina Álvarez, program director of the General Secretariat of the Presidency, who led the negotiations with the UCM on behalf of Gómez. In fact, he appears as the recipient of the two aforementioned emails. In both cases, via a personal email ending with @gmail.com.
And this procedure coincides with that attested by another email, advanced by EL ESPAÑOL, which shows that Álvarez urged the insurer Real Insurance to continue serving as patron of the Extraordinary Chair in Competitive Social Transformation (TSC), one of the two that Gómez co-directed at the UCM.
Several emails provided by Gómez to the judge. In these, the UCM addresses the director of presidential programs: “Dear Cristina”.
Another of the emails Camacho provided to the judge is signed by an official from the Complutense Patent Management Office. It is dated October 6, 2022. María Cristina Álvarez and Begoña Gómez are two of the recipients. The text of e-mailagain, deals with the technical issues of the softwaresuch as its web domain or its intellectual property rights.
The email sent by The UCM Patent Management Office begins with the following greeting: “Dear Cristina,” referring to Álvarez. A previous email, on the same subject and to which he responded, uses the same formula.
