Last minute of the appearance of Cristina Álvarez and Javier Hidalgo for the Koldo case today, live

12:52

Cristina Álvarez, in the Investigation Commission of the Koldo case

Moncloa’s advisor has refused to testify in the Senate.

images of Jaime Garcia.

12:35

Emails that corroborated Álvarez’s efforts for Begoña Gómez

The case summary contains an email in which Álvarez conveyed to Reale Gómez’s interest in the insurance company continuing to sponsor the Extraordinary Chair of Competitive Social Transformation that he directed. Furthermore, other emails reflect that the advisor participated in negotiations with the Complutense related to Gómez’s extraordinary professorship. The president’s own wife has provided the judge with emails that show that Moncloa’s advisor participated in these efforts.

12:22

The commission is suspended until 1:30 p.m.

The Investigation Commission of the Koldo case will resume at 1:30 p.m. with the appearance of the former executive director of Globalia, Javier Hidalgo.

12:19

Serrano (PP): “You don’t owe anything to anyone, and even less to Mrs. Gómez and Mr. Sánchez, who have gotten you into a huge mess”

The popular senator has asked Álvarez if “he is going to eat everything.” «It doesn’t seem fair to me what they are doing to him. You are not doing yourself a favor with your silence, you are doing it to others. «It doesn’t seem fair to me what they are doing to him. “You are not doing yourself a favor with your silence, you are doing it to others,” he stressed.

12:13

The ‘whatsapp’ that proves that Moncloa’s advisor worked for Begoña Gómez’s businesses

The La Moncloa advisor has accompanied Begoña Gómez in her activities at the Complutense University of Madrid in recent years, where she has directed an extraordinary professorship and co-directed two master’s degrees despite lacking an official higher degree. Cristina Álvarez has not only asked companies for money for the private initiatives of the president’s wife, as evidenced by the emails delivered to the case being instructed by Judge Juan Carlos Peinado, but she also worked on the day-to-day academic activities of Begoña Gómez.

An information of Javier Chicote and Isabel Vega.

12:02

Serrano (PP): “What you are doing here cannot be done in court”

«I don’t know what consequences what he is doing here may have, but he cannot do this in court. “You will have to answer and tell the truth,” Serrano snapped at Álvarez after asking him about his relationship with Begoña Gómez and continuing without getting a response.

11:53

The judge in the Begoña case summons Moncloa’s advisor as a witness on December 20

The head of the Court of Instruction number 41 of Madrid, Juan Carlos Peinado, has summoned the Director of Programs of the Secretariat of the Presidency of the Government, Cristina Álvarez, to testify, so that as a witness she can explain on December 20 the efforts that appear of the emails contributed to the cause, was carried out for the extraordinary professorship that Begoña Gómez, wife of the President of the Government, directed at the Complutense University of Madrid.

An information of Isabel Vega.

11:46

Álvarez and Begoña Gómez met at the Inmark consulting firm

The relationship between Álvarez and Begoña Gómez goes back years and they met at the consulting firm Inmark, in which Sánchez’s wife was the boss of the current Director of Programs of the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Government. Begoña Gómez left Inmark when her husband became President of the Executive.

11:40

Serrano (PP), after asking about the consulting firm Inmark: “I’m not going to answer either for reasons that are not judicialized”

The popular senator has asked Álvarez about the Inmark company. “No one is investigating issues related to this company.” After not receiving a response from Moncloa’s advisor, Serrano added: “He is not going to answer me either for reasons that are not judicialized.”

11:30

The popular group protests Álvarez’s refusal to testify

Alfonso Serrano, popular senator, has asked the commission table for “consequences” for the decision of Moncloa’s advisor not to testify. “There is no objective reason for the appearing party not to collaborate and not respond to the various groups,” he stated.

11:27

Moncloa’s advisor was Begoña Gómez’s “right hand” in the consulting firm where they worked

The Director of Programs of the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Government, Cristina Álvarez, who has acted as Begoña Gómez’s assistant in her private activities, has been a personal friend of Pedro Sánchez’s wife for years. In the summer of 2018, after the motion of censure that brought the socialist leader to the Presidency of the Government, she was hired as a position of trust in the La Moncloa complex.

An information of Javier Chicote.

11:19

Paloma Gómez asks Álvarez about his relationship with Begoña Gómez: “I am not going to make statements”

The spokesperson for the mixed group, Paloma Gómez, has asked Álvarez questions related to the wife of the President of the Government, Begoña Gómez, and about what her job was in La Moncloa and what functions she performed. Álvarez has stressed to him: “I am not going to make statements, as I have commented.”

11:06

Cristina Álvarez: «I will not answer the questions you ask me»

“Given that the issues that interest you in my statement are judicialized, I will not answer the questions that you ask me, taking advantage of my right not to testify,” said Moncloa’s advisor at the beginning of the appearance.

11:03

Cristina Álvarez’s appearance in the Senate begins

Moncloa’s advisor will speak about the Koldo case in the Upper House. Her name has come to the media after being related to efforts for the chair that the president’s wife directed at the UCM.

10:56

Sánchez arrives at his congress with 15 people from his environment under suspicion

The accusations of the commissioner of the Koldo plot, Víctor de Aldama, affect several party officials; among them, his number three and Secretary of Organization, Santos Cerdán, as well as the ministers Torres, Marlaska or the chief of staff of Vice President Montero.

An information of Ines Ruiz-Jimenez and Iuri Pereira.

10:52

Appearance of Cristina Álvarez, Moncloa advisor, for the Koldo case

Good morning, Cristina Álvarez Rodríguez, Moncloa advisor, will appear at 11 a.m. this Friday before the Senate Investigative Committee that is trying to clarify the Koldo plot.