Judge Juan Carlos Peinado reproached the Minister of Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Courts, Felix Bolaños, who “WILL ABLIC WITH EVASIVIVES” And smile during his statement as a witness in the investigation of the hiring of the Women’s Assistant of the President of the Government, Begoña Gómez.
Bolaños declared from the Ministry of Presidency on April 16 and the judge affected him the way he answered his questions and snapped at a time of tension: “I do not know what he obeys that he obeys You slender a smile “, as can be heard in the audio of the statement.
That moment was lived after the minister saw the statement he made as a witness Alfredo González that in 2018, due to the position he then held, Deputy Secretary of Presidency, raised the proposal to appoint Cristina ÁlvarezBegoña Gómez assistant, and who said he did not remember who told him to make that designation.
When asked about whether this statement was adjusted to reality, Bolaños uses the word “I think” several times to maintain that he considers yes, what causes the complaints of the magistrate, which at one time tells the minister that the way he answers “It is not how a testimony is admitted at judicial headquarters” and that responding with evasive according to the law is “how to refuse to answer.”
“I think, honor, that I am not answering with evasive in any case“The minister replicates, to which the magistrate tells him that it is not he who must assess whether or not what he says is an evasive.
At that time, Bolaños smiles, the judge asks why and the minister replies: “Honor, His interrogation is very surprising That is why I have outlined a smile “, to which the judge replicates that it is because he is not accustomed to an interrogation and the minister points out:” Of course not. “
Another moment of tension is lived when the magistrate tells him that he sees discrepancies between what the minister is declaring and what González said, warning him that in that case You must suspend the diligence and open a new one.
Bolaños denies the discrepancies and tries to explain to the judge that the Deputy Secretary elevates the appointment proposals, But it is not the one who decides the names, which corresponds to those directly responsible for the eventual personnel.
At the end of the statement, when the judge asks the minister who was the initiative of the appointment and who was the direct manager, Bolaños says that he does not know, that it was not his competence and that they were riding a government. The instructor sees “incomprehensible”, What Bolaños ignore that.
“I don’t know what surprises him, It was never my subordinated. He works in a building where I have never worked, which is a palace. In that building there are people who exercise their professional work in the closest environment of both the president of the Government and the president’s family, “says Bolaños.
At that time, hairstyle suspend the statement and ask Bolaños to Collect enough information to answer.
On his return, with the information collected, the minister explains to the judge that the data of the responsible person, Raúl Díaz, sHe already communicated the court in a certificate. The instructor asks him to say it and consult the second last name by not remembering the minister and cuts a lawyer who intended to clarify it.
During his statement, the minister also said that he did not meet Cristina Álvarez until after his appointment and that he coincided with her “Very little times.” In addition, he argued that the president’s assistant figure has always existed and that in the change of government there were around one hundred appointments of possible.
In this separate piece, Judge Peinado investigates for An alleged crime of embezzlement Cristina Álvarez’s appointment to attend Begoña Gómez in agenda issues.
In addition to Begoña Gómez and Cristina Álvarez, the judge investigates three other people in this case: the businessman Juan Carlos Barrabésthe rector of the Complutense University, Joaquín Goyache; and the former Madrid and manager of the Company Institute Juan José Güemes.
During his statement Bolaños said that I didn’t know Barrabés or Güemes and that with the rector of the Complutense he has only coincided in one act.
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