The judge investigating Begoña Gómez for a Clean Hands complaint summons six witnesses three days before the European Championships

Judge Juan Carlos Peinado, who is investigating Begoña Gómez as a result of a complaint filed by the ultra pseudo-syndicate Hands Cleans, has summoned five witnesses on June 6 and one more the following day, which will stage the momentum of his investigation three days of the European elections, which take place on June 9.

Peinado will take a statement on June 6 from the former directors of the public company Red.es David Cierco Jiménez de Parga and Alberto Martínez Lacambra; to the current directors of the same company Ignacio Espejo Saavedra Hernández and Luis Prieto Cuerdo; and Luis Antonio Martín Bernardos, director of the Barrabés Group. The next day Carlos Barrabés Consul himself must declare.

The head of the Investigative Court opened investigation proceedings for an alleged crime of corruption in the private sector and influence peddling. Last week he took statements from two journalists from the media who have published information about the wife of the President of the Government and his alleged influence on Executive decisions in favor of companies.

Clean Hands filed a complaint that was based solely on published information and included hoaxes. The Prosecutor’s Office has appealed the opening of proceedings before the Provincial Court of Madrid, a court higher than Judge Peinado.

This Tuesday, El País published that the judge already has a report from the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard that rules out that Begoña Gómez participated in influence peddling. It was this Wednesday when the judge’s decision to continue promoting the investigation emerged.

The confidential published on April 2 that Gómez had signed a letter in 2020 to support the UTE Barrabés-The Valley in a tender from the Ministry of Economy. Other information, published a day later, spoke of a second letter. Behind one of those recommended companies is the technological entrepreneur Carlos Barrabés, cited as a witness, who had participated as a professor in the master’s degree and the Social Transformation chair that Gómez directed at the Complutense.

According to this information, the letters would have been key for companies to receive more than eight million euros in public aid to carry out courses for young people and the unemployed. The organization that tendered the contracts—Red.es, dependent on the Ministry of Economy then directed by Nadia Calviño— denied that the letters had relevance in the granting of the lots to the aforementioned UTE.