The Superior Court of Justice of Madrid has decided to reject the complaint that Begoña Gómez, wife of the President of the Government, filed against Judge Juan Carlos Peinado for prevarication. The judges reject that there is a “tortic departure from the norm” on the part of the judge, as Gómez stated in his complaint, and explains that he has not even appealed by ordinary means many of Peinado’s decisions that he considers prevaricating.
All of Begoña Gómez’s accusations against Judge Peinado, the TSJM states in its order, are “an assumption, an opinion” of the wife of the President of the Government against the magistrate who has been directing an investigation against her for months at the request of the ultra pseudo-union. Clean Hands.
The decision of the Madrid Superior Court implies the rejection of the three complaints that were filed against Peinado for his management of the case in which he has investigated Begoña Gómez since last April. The first to fail was the one filed by journalist Máximo Pradera for revealing secrets when he understood that he had publicly reported on the case despite being under summary secrecy, an accusation rejected by the TSJM.
In that case, the judges understood that various statements issued by the TSJ of the capital regarding the opening of the case did not violate the secrecy of the case. “The publication of certain proceedings without revealing their results does not violate the secrecy of the proceedings, moving within the scope of what is public and what is publishable,” the magistrates said then. Now they repeat those arguments to reject the accusations of revealing secrets that were also made in Gómez’s complaint.
Shortly afterward came the inadmissibility of the second complaint, filed by the State Attorney’s Office on behalf of Pedro Sánchez and accusing Judge Peinado of prevaricating in the summons as a witness for the President of the Government. An order in which the judges of the TSJ harshly attacked the complaint and the State Attorney’s Office, with one of them even raising the possibility that the President of the Government would be fined thousands of euros for acting recklessly.
This third complaint, filed by lawyer and former minister Antonio Camacho on behalf of Gómez, has just been rejected. The Madrid court explains that the businesswoman’s complaints are directed against decisions that either do not fall under the jurisdiction of the judge or that have not even been appealed. That some resolutions of the judge, for example those related to the secrecy of the summary that were discredited by the Provincial Court, are not necessarily prevaricatory due to the fact that they have been revoked.
They were not “unsustainable” decisions.
“Only unsustainable resolutions should be considered prevaricating,” explains the TSJM. Nor do they see a crime in the judge’s handling of the presentation of popular accusations linked to the extreme right such as Manos Limpies, Vox, HazteOir or the lawyer Aitor Guisasola, among others.
The judges recognize that, in some cases already detected and corrected by the Provincial Court in May and October, Juan Carlos Peinado’s decisions “were not adjusted to the requirements of the procedural standard.” But not prevaricators. The inaccuracy of court 41 in Plaza de Castilla is not a “flagrant departure from the norm” as required by the crime of prevarication.
The decision of the TSJ of Madrid implies that the three criminal actions filed against Judge Peinado for prevarication are dismissed and that the magistrate, after the latest resolutions of the Provincial Court, has free rein to continue with an important part of his investigation. Having ruled out suspicions regarding his possible participation in the rescue of more than 400 million euros to Air Europa, the magistrate has focused his investigations on the public awards to businessman Juan Carlos Barrabés and on Gómez’s work at the Complutense University.
For now, all the reports from the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard have ruled out the suspicions that arose from a complaint by Clean Hands created from half a dozen press clippings, including a hoax. Both Barrabés and the rector of the Complutense have denied any favorable treatment to the businesswoman or that her marriage to the President of the Government has brought her a business benefit.
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