Judge Juan Carlos Peinado has suspended the statements of several Red.es officials that he intended to interrogate as witnesses this Sunday, after the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO, for its acronym in English) announced that it was assuming the part of the investigation that It affects a joint venture in which a company owned by businessman Juan Carlos Barrabés participated financed with European funds. The head of the Court of Instruction Number 41 has also annulled the summons to Barrabés, who is hospitalized, but maintains both the summons of his company’s lawyer and that of the wife of the President of the Government, Begoña Gómez, who is scheduled to give a statement on July 5th. Peinado has agreed to send part of the case to the EPPO, which had requested it.
Legal sources consulted maintain that the judge has annulled the summons of the CEO of Red.es, David Cierco; the former general director of Red.es Alberto Martínez Lacambra; the economist and lawyer of Innova Next SL Luis Antonio Martín Bernardos; the director of legal advice at Red.es, Ignacio Espejo Saavedra Hernández; and Luis Prieto Cuerdo, director of Economy of Red.es, a public entity attached to the Ministry for Digital Transformation.
The decision of the EPPO to issue a decree of certiorari to assume part of the case was announced a week after the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard appeared at the headquarters of the public company Red.es to collect information with contracts that were awarded to Barrabés and that are related to the investigation by order of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office. On April 26, this community body became interested in the case and asked Peinado, the judge who accepted the complaint by Manos Liminas against Begoña Gómez, if the procedure affected contracts signed with European funds.
In that decree, the EPPO asked the judge to inform it of the facts it is investigating and to specify whether the procedure “would involve the UTE Innova Next SLU-The Valley Business School”, made up of a company owned by businessman Juan Carlos. Barrabés, whom Clean Hands points out as a beneficiary of Gómez’s “recommendations or endorsements.” In a resolution dated June 7, the judge accepts the invocation made by the EPPO exclusively with respect to the facts and crimes “related to the award of contracts financed with European funds by the public entity Red.es to the UTE Innova Next SLU-The Valley Business School.” Peinado adopts this decision “without prejudice to the irregularities linked to the previous events that could constitute criminal offenses and in which European funds were affected.”
In another ruling, from this Tuesday, Peinado has urged to identify the person who, he points out, signed the judicial summons to Begoña Gómez, whose initials, PD, and an “illegible” signature appear, and summons the head of the security service. from La Moncloa for June 19.
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