Key day in the case that the judge is investigating Juan Carlos Peinado against Begoña Gomez. The Provincial Court of Madrid studies this Monday the defense resources of the wife of the President of the Government and the Prosecutor’s Officethat They ask you to classify or limit the file opened against her for influence peddling and alleged corruption in the business world.
Article 23 of the hearing, which months ago he had already approved the opening of the filemeets behind closed doors to resolve the appeals, although legal sources consulted by the Efe agency believe that it is unlikely that its decision will be known this Monday. The speaker is Judge Enrique Jesús Bergés.
A few weeks ago, the Madrid court He demanded from Judge Peinado the entire procedure this had been achieved, in a judgment to which LaSexta had access. Previously, in May, he approved the magistrate’s decision to open the case, rejecting an appeal from the prosecution against the opening of the procedure.
He, although he appreciated the “conjectures” contained in the complaint of the far-right organization Clean hands which initially gave rise to the investigation. A decision in which the Provincial Court did not take into account the report from the UCO of the Civil Guard this excluded signs of crime.
Requests from the Defense and the Prosecutor
In this context, Gómez’s defense requests that the file be archived, claiming that it is a prospective and universal researchprohibited by law. Very critical of the procedure led by Judge Peinado, the lawyer Antonio Camacho resorted to resolutionin which the magistrate emphasized that investigation into “all acts, conduct and behavior which were carried out by the investigator since her husband is president of the Spanish government which appear in the initial complaint”.
The judge added that the contracts awarded to the temporary union of the companies Innova Next and The Valley Business School by the public entity Red.es, financed with European funds and investigating the European Public Prosecutor’s Office. However, Gómez’s defense denounces the fact that the judge continued to investigate other people’s facts to those on which the Madrid court ruled, such as the rescue of Air Europa or the master’s degree that Pedro Sánchez’s wife co-directed at the Complutense University of Madrid.
THE Prosecutor’s Officefor its part, requests refine the investigation in the terms that the Court set out in the above-mentioned order, and warns that the judicial process is “generic and lacking in concreteness”.
These appeals were presented at the beginning of July, before the judge gave impetus to the investigation and also indicted the businessman. Juan Carlos Barrabésand to the rector of Complutense, Joaquin Goyacheand summoned himself to appear as a witness Pedro Sanchezwhose statement was taken at the Moncloa Palace, where the head of the Executive took advantage of his right not to testify so as not to harm his wife.
In turn, and whatever the decision of the Court this Monday, another judicial body, the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid (TSJM), must decide whether or not it admits to processing complaints that the State Attorneyrepresentative Sánchez, and Begoña Gomez filed against Judge Peinado for alleged prevarication.
