The president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, asked to appoint an advisor or trusted person for his wife, Begoña Gómez, just a month after arriving at La Moncloa after prospering the motion of censure against Mariano Rajoy. As a consequence of this request, the Ministry … of Presidency appointed Programs Director to Cristina Álvareznow charged by the Judge of Madrid Juan Carlos Peinado, just like Sánchez’s wife.
This follows from the information that presidency of the Government has sent to the aforementioned magistrate, who opened a cause to Sánchez’s wife in April 2024 for alleged influences, corruption in business, undue appropriation and professional intrusion in relation to the mode in which she accessed the position of director of an extraordinary chair of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) in 2020 despite not having a degree, as well as the way she recorded a technological tool or ‘software’ of the master’s degree together with The chair that Google, Indra and Telefónica paid altruisticallyclarifying that they did it to be held by the public university.
Within the framework of this investigation, the instructor cited first with the condition as a witness to Cristina Álvarez, who was receiving the emails that the university sent to Gómez for the creation and coordination of his chair, as well as he came to contact sponsors for sponsors for sponsors The study program. On February 4, he changed his status to that of investigated and asked the Central Operating Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard «the registration of calls made and received by Mrs. Álvarez from her appointment and until today to linked phones to the Complutense University of Madrid and its staff already linked to Mr. Barrabés and his group »of companies.
Juan Carlos Barrabés was a professor of the Master of the Chair of Begoña Gómez. She signed three letters of recommendation for the entrepreneur as director of the UCM Chair for a Public Company Red.es who attended one of her companies, Innova Next.
Álvarez herself – who as published ABC was subordinated by Begoña Gómez years ago in the Marketing company Inmark – declared as a witness on December 20 that she was appointed in July 2018 Director of Programs of the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Government, position Level 26, as a trusted person of Begoña Gómez to take the agenda and manage his institutional acts.
“Affinity notes”
This is confirmed by the Government’s presidency in the documentation sent to the judge, to which ABC has had access, although at no time speaks that among its functions there were support for professional or private activities of Sánchez’s wife, such as the ones he developed in The Complutense or the Private Center for Studies Institute of Business (IE), where she was director of the Africa Center.
“He performs immediate collaboration tasks, logistically and organizationally in the framework of the care of the government’s president, in which affinity notes inherent in confidence predominate,” Judge Raúl Silva, Judge Raúl Silva, on February 6, informed Judge Raúl Silva, Responsible for the Administration and Coordination of the Personnel of the Palace Buildings and Council of Ministers of the Moncloa Complex.
«Such tasks include, among all those that can be included in the scope of trusted tasks, the following: the management of the agenda and the preparation of the presence in meetings, visits and/or events, the management and administration of communications , telephone and documentary assistance, the accompaniment in displacements and the interlocution and coordination with the protocol, security, foreign affairs and other departments involved in the organization of acts and trips of the president of the Government or derived from their own agenda », Moncloa extends, without expressing express issues reserved for Begoña Gómez, oblivious to the activity of President Sánchez.
A description that clashes with the communications that Álvarez had with the former Vice Chancellor for Institutional Relations of the Complutense, Juan Carlos Dadrio, or the Department of Patent Management of said University and that are incorporated into the cause.
ABC revealed a WhatsApp that Álvarez sent to Dadrio in October 2022 about the management of the intellectual property of the ‘software’ for which Begoña Gómez is investigated for alleged improper appropriation.
Begoña Gómez’s own defense, in a letter presented to the judge, also introduced another mail that Cristina Álvarez received from the Complutense Patent Management Team with a ‘contract for the transfer of rights’ so that the ownership of the’ software ‘out «100% UCM». “Your collaboration will be collected in the contract for the transfer of rights,” they said, as a representative of the interests of Begoña Gómez.
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