The defense of Begoña Gomez, wife of the president of the government, accused of influence peddling and corruption in business, filed an appeal in which he assures that the judge Juan Carlos Peinado directs the investigation against him “on the basis of mere speculation with motives unrelated to the case.”
In the document signed on Tuesday, the lawyer protests the decision of the investigator to collect the testimony of the director of Business Institute Human Resources and to ask the Complutense University of Madrid to specify how much the wife of the President of the Government was paid to head the chair Competitive social transformation.
He defends that the investigation “has no basis” because the facts that are the subject of an investigation “they have already been thrown away” by the Provincial Court of Madrid and by two reports from the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard, Begoña Gómez claims in the appeal she reports Ep..
His lawyer, former socialist minister Antonio Camacho, assures that “it is not possible to collect the agreed testimony or demand the required documents” because these are “procedures that have nothing to do” with the procedure.
“We are dealing with mere interested speculations, which have reasons unrelated to the case, and which should not be authorized by the court, which must guarantee procedural guarantees and respect for our Constitution,” he emphasizes.
Furthermore, he insists that the president of the investigating court number 41 of Madrid is currently carrying out “a prospective investigation” and defends this “There is no trace of irregularities in the facts investigated” which the judge instructed the UCO to examine.
It was on September 19 that Judge Peinado asked the Complutense to inform him of the amount of Begoña Gómez’s remuneration for leading the presidency. Competitive social transformationThe instructor also urged the center to provide “as soon as possible” the list of “students registered and attending each edition” of the course.
Likewise, the judge requested that Complutense communicate “the list of amounts paid, specifying the number of beneficiary checking accounts, to the director of the chair, the deputy director, Professor (José Manuel) Ruano and all the professors.”
In this regard, he asked the La Caixa Foundation and Reale Seguros to provide “the files for granting the subsidy to sponsor the creation of the chair and the subsequent acts of continuation or monitoring of it, with all the documentation provided by Begoña Gómez.”
A few days earlier, on September 17, the judge had agreed to summon as a witness the director of human resources of the Business Institute (IE), Sonsoles Blanca Gil de Antuñano, to appear on October 16 at 1 p.m.
