The UCO, the Central Operational Unit of the Civil Guard, has certified that the Badajoz Provincial Council created a job “for the subsequent awarding and hiring of David Sánchez Pérez-Castejón”, the brother of the President of the Government. This report, for which the head of the Court of Instruction number three of Badajoz, Beatriz Biedma, has called to declare as investigated both David Sánchez and the president of the Badajoz Provincial Council and general secretary of the PSOE of Extremadura, Miguel Ángel Gallardo, on January 9.
Although The UCO has not been able to certify who came from the initiative – “it is unknown”, says this unit – it does confirm that the facts could constitute the commission of influence peddling, prevarication and embezzlement of public funds. In the report, to which this newspaper has had access, the UCO states that “despite the fact that the proposals that were prepared did not contemplate at any time the need to create a senior management position to coordinate the provincial conservatories and despite apparently of the president of the excessive nature of the proposal, three days later, José Ramón Suárez Arias, head of the Human Resources Administration Service, sent an email to Julián Expósito Talavera, from the area of Presidency and Institutional Relations (…) where already includes documentation on the creation of the position”, which was awarded to Sánchez’s brother. The president of the Badajoz council even sent an email in which he questioned the creation of the position – “it seems to me that you are asking for a lot of staff,” he said – but he finally ended up accepting it just six days later.
In her order, the judge has made it clear that once the content of the UCO report of the Civil Guard has been analyzed, from which “the existence of rational indications of criminality” related to the crimes against the public administration investigated are derived, it is They consider it necessary to continue a series of investigative procedures. Specifically, and with respect to the “modification of jobs and the creation of the position of coordinator of activities of the music conservatories of the area of Culture, Youth and Social Welfare of the Provincial Council of Badajoz”, the court requests that “as soon as possible” regulation regulating the procedure for the approval, review and modification of the List of Jobs of 7-30-2003to which the Provincial Institution refers in its documentation.
In parallel, the agents affirm that in the employment contract belonging to the brother of the President of the Government that the Badajoz Provincial Council provided to the court “differences are observed” with the one found in the intercepted emails. What is striking is, furthermore, according to the researchers, that the document – sent between the corresponding officials of the Provincial Council – in which the The candidatures for the appointment of the position date back to July 29, 2017 and, however, David Sánchez’s employment contract was signed 19 days before.
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