The judge in the Begoña Gómez case demands from the Civil Guard the contracts that the agents have already investigated

The judge studying the complaint of the Manos Liminas union against Begoña Gómez, wife of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has asked the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard to send him the contracts that were awarded to the businessman Juan Carlos Barrabés from Red.es, the Higher Sports Council and the Madrid City Council, Europa Press reports. The judge’s request is contained in an order dated May 24, to which Europa Press has had access, issued three days after El País revealed the content of the UCO report that reflects the agents’ conclusions on those contracts. in the sense that there are no indications of crime in the actions of Begoña Sánchez.

In another resolution, Judge Juan Carlos Peinado also agreed to the formation of a separate line of investigation after the leak of the UCO report that rules out the connection between Begoña Gómez and the former CEO of Globalia Javier Hidalgo who favored the rescue of the airline. of the company by the State.

The instructor agreed to open this new piece due to the possible commission of a crime of discovery and disclosure of secrets, since the leak of the report occurred when the case was still under secrecy. It was the agents of the Armed Institute who alerted the judge of the publication of the report in a media outlet despite the fact that it was, they added, “protected by the secrecy of the summary.”

The Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard rules out the influence of the wife of the President of the Government, Begoña Gómez, in the rescue of the airline Air Europa and in the awards to a businessman who was a professor in one of the master’s degrees that she co-director at the Complutense University of Madrid. This is stated in an extensive report that the armed institute sent to the Madrid judge Juan Carlos Peinado on May 14. Peinado had opened an investigation against Gómez after a complaint from the ultra pseudo-union Manos Limeas based on press information, some of it false.

The UCO thus dismantles the two main elements on which Clean Hands was based to attribute crimes of corruption and influence peddling to the wife of the head of the Executive. On the one hand, the relationship that he established at the Instituto de Empresa —where he directed the IE Africa Center between August 2018 and June 2022— with the owners of Globalia, owner of Air Europa, a company that was later rescued by the Government in the pandemic. On the other hand, the letters of declaration of interest that she signed in favor of Carlos Barrabés, a businessman who accessed public aid and who worked as a professor in the Master of Social Transformation that she directed at the Complutense.

Furthermore, the Civil Guard denies information published by the digital The Objective which attributed a public subsidy to Gómez and which was also included in the Manos Liminas complaint. The investigators compared the DNI of the recipient of this public aid – also called Begoña Gómez – with that of the wife of the Chief Executive and confirmed that it was another person. “It is important to note that no evidence has been found that María Begoña Gómez Fernández has received any public subsidy. The reference in the press reports to such a subsidy corresponds to one received by another natural person who shares the same name and surname, but they are different natural persons,” the report states.