The UCM, on Begoña Gómez’s software: “We are not aware of its existence”

The Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) does not have in its possession the software developed for the extinct extraordinary professorship of Begoña Gómez, despite having been expressly requested to do so, official sources confirm to ABC. University regulations establish that all material purchased or developed for the chair – the one that Sánchez’s wife or anyone else has directed for the last four years – is property of the UCM and must thus be stored and inventoried, but in the case of software that Judge Juan Carlos Peinado is investigating, official sources from the Complutense assure ABC that not only do they not have it in their possession, but they are not even clear about what exactly that material is: “We are not even aware that it exists,” they assert. There is a purchase invoice for about 60,000 euros, and they believe, without being certain, that it may be the software that would have been used for a website created by the Extraordinary Chair of Competitive Social Transformation, www.transformatsc.org, but now It is not operational. Last Monday a meeting of the Joint Monitoring Commission was held in which the liquidation of the chair was formalized, which expired yesterday, although de facto it was already cancelled. It was established on October 30, 2020 for a renewable four-year period. After the meeting, a record was drawn up in which, according to ‘El Confidencial’, the chair’s management was urged to deliver “in the state in which it is found, all documentation, programs, technological platforms, software or devices susceptible to of intellectual or industrial property that, in any medium, has been designed or implemented with the resources of the Chair and that has not been delivered to the University. Related News standard Yes The Government insists on the innocence of Begoña Gómez despite her latest accusation: “There is nothing” Pilar De la Cuesta Bolaños maintains that there is no report or testimony that proves crimes by the president’s wife. Begoña Gómez did not attend the meeting as she was on an international trip with Pedro Sánchez, so Professor José Manuel Ruano, co-director of the chair, did it on his behalf. On Tuesday, the head of the Court of Instruction number 41 of Madrid, Juan Carlos Peinado, admitted Hazte Oír’s complaint against Begoña Gómez about the fate he gave to the software that several companies developed for his professorship. The program ended up in the hands of a company commercial company registered in the name of the wife of the President of the Government, hence the probable misappropriation. The complaint had fallen on Court number 48, but the Provincial Court of Madrid ruled that Peinado was competent to investigate it, reports Isabel Vega. Thus, Peinado charged Begoña Gómez with two new crimes, misappropriation and professional intrusion, and summoned her to his court on November 18 at 11:30 a.m. to notify her of the accusation and summon her to testify, which in practice means that she will have to attend. to the court twice. The UCM, the legitimate owner of the software, is not represented in the Juan Carlos Peinado court as being harmed. The institution requested it, before the rector, Joaquín Goyache, was charged with influence peddling, but the magistrate rejected it, considering it a premature request. For now, the Vice-Rector for Institutional Relations has decided not to try again. Sánchez’s wife’s intention was to renew the chair, and she requested it, but the UCM did not agree. As ABC advanced, the decision had been made since last May and was due to the reputational cost that the prestigious university institution was assuming due to the controversy generated by the investigation of Begoña Gómez for influence peddling.

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