Judge Juan Carlos Peinado has agreed to delay Begoña Gómez’s appearance until December 18 due to her presence at an official event in Brazil and, in addition, has rejected Vox’s request for precautionary measures and the rest of the accusations of imposing precautionary measures on her. “It is difficult to contemplate that he intends to evade the action of justice and reside in any other country,” says Peinado about the allegations of the extreme right, which asked for his passport to be withdrawn. On November 21, a judicial official will go to La Moncloa to personally deliver the HazteOir complaint for which the investigation against her has been expanded.
The magistrate who has been investigating Gómez for months opened a new avenue a few weeks ago to investigate his relationship with the Complutense University of Madrid: the supposedly irregular management of software developed for his professorship. The judge’s next move was to call the wife of the President of the Government to appear in court on November 18, receive the complaint and give a statement.
Gómez requested the delay of this summons as it coincided with an official event in Brazil. Some of the popular accusations embodied, among other far-right groups, by Vox, Manos Cleans, HazteOir and Iustitia Europa, asked the judge to withdraw his passport to prevent him from fleeing.
The judge has issued two orders in which he rejects this request for precautionary measures and in which he delays Gómez’s statement to December 18, establishing that an official will go to the Moncloa Palace on November 21 to deliver the last complaint that Peinado has admitted against her. “Attendance at said event is voluntary, and acceptance of the invitation could have been excused,” reproaches Peinado before accepting and delaying the summons.
These concessions, the judge affirms, with “special privileges” that “distinguish her from any citizen.” Regarding the accusations’ request to withdraw his passport and impose precautionary measures, the judge rules out that there is a risk of him fleeing: “It is common practice on the part of the defendants, who receive some communication from the judicial bodies to request a change of date ”.
He understands that Begoña Gómez is not going to escape because she enjoys “a situation and conditions superior to those of the average of any citizen residing in Spain.” Therefore, he adds, “it is difficult to contemplate that he intends to reside in any other country, for a prolonged period of time, which makes the adoption of the requested precautionary measure unnecessary and disproportionate.”
New research on software
Judge Juan Carlos Peinado has opened a new branch of the case against Begoña Gómez at the request of the ultra-Catholic association HazteOir. A complaint in which the wife of the President of the Government is accused of having irregularly appropriated software developed by several companies for the chair she co-directed.
The businesswoman appeared this Wednesday in the Madrid Assembly in the investigation commission promoted by the absolute majority of the PP to analyze possible irregularities in the work of Begoña Gómez both in her two master’s degrees and in the professorship, all three already suspended for future courses. .
Gómez has decided not to testify, denouncing the “political objective” of this case, but the rector of the Complutense University, Joaquín Goyache, has appeared, and has been clear in denying any favorable treatment to the businesswoman for being the wife of the President of the Government. : “Of course not.”
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