Judge Juan Carlos Peinado, who is investigating Begoña Gomezasked the Business Institute (IE) to clarify into which accounts the salaries of Pedro Sánchez’s wife were paid.
This is what legal sources detail at EL ESPAÑOL. This Wednesday, Peinado questioned Sonsoles Gil de Antuñano Fernández-Montes.
It is about the current director of human resources at IEan organization that signed the wife of the newly elected government president in 2018. For the next two years, Gómez was responsible for leading the IE Africa Center, a 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 Antaño (i).
This Thursday, after his statement, Judge Peinado asked the witness how much the entity had paid Gómez for this work and asked in which accounts were deposited the 55,000 euros of annual payroll that Begoña received in 14 installments.
Sources present during the interrogation of Gil de Antuñano explain that the HR manager designated a superior, Juan José Güemes Barrios, as the one who ordered the signing of Pedro Sánchez’s wife shortly after he became president of the government.
Indeed, Peinado asked the witness to reveal the second name of this superior. —she called him by his first and last name—and the judge wrote it, which suggests that this manager will be summoned to testify soon.
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.
The call Begoña affair It begins with the complaint from the Manos Liminas union, which attributes the 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).
