The Complutense now refuses to give the number of students in Begoña Gómez’s chair

The Complutense University of Madrid refuses to inform to the judge investigating Begoña Gómez of the number of students enrolled in your class. The university explains in its response to Judge Juan Carlos Peinado that cannot provide this information because it is data that affects third parties and is protected. In this way, it rules out complying with the judicial request requested to clarify the details of the creation of the chair for women of the President of the Government.

In his response, to which he has had access Vozpópulithe Complutense lawyer explains that the entity’s spirit is “provide maximum collaboration” with the cause. Now, it refuses to report on the list of students enrolled in each of the editions of the chair on Competitive social transformation and also to offer a list of the amounts paid for each student. The reason given is that revealing said information would violate Organic Law 3/2018, of December 5, on Data Protection. “The information requested judicially, due to its nature and content, by people unrelated to the case being followed in this court,” they allege.

The instructor who investigates Begoña Gómez for the crimes of influence peddling and corruption in business He requested these data from the Complutense after questioning his rector, Joaquin Goyache and also to the former vice-rector Juan Carlos Doadrio, in his case as a witness. The judge who opened the case for Gómez’s letters of recommendation to his partner, Juan Carlos Barrabés, expanded the investigations after Goyache’s first statement in court.

The students of the chair

The rector, who initially appeared as a witness, explained that He moved to Moncloa in July 2020 at the request of Begoña Gómez herself and that, among other matters, they discussed the creation of the chair at the Complutense. The rector delegated this process to Doadrio, who, in his appearance as a witness, gave a different version. Specifically, he said that Goyache ordered him to create this chair for the wife of the president of the Government.

The judge focused on this process, taking into account that Begoña Gómez He is not a professor at this university and that he does not have higher education. However, Complutense staff said that such knowledge was not necessary to have an extraordinary professorship and that she was named co-director of the master’s degrees (and not director) because, being personnel from outside the university, she could not appear as such. Failing that, they appointed José Manuel Ruano as director.

The information requested judicially, due to its nature and content, affects personal data of third parties unrelated, as this representation believes, to the case being followed before that Court.

However, Peinado keeps this line of research open and, in that sense, requested the number of students signed up for the chair and also checking account numbers of master’s professors. In addition, it also required the public university to report the number of extraordinary professorships created in recent years. In his response, revealed by this meansthe Complutense said that as of August 1, 2024 there were a total of 53 extraordinary professorship agreements.

However, the university confessed that did not keep the directors’ resumes in its files and co-directors of all of them, including that of Begoña Gómez. This response was included in a communication sent by the current vice-rector of the UCM, José María Coello from Portugal, to the General Secretariat in accordance with a request from Judge Juan Carlos Peinado on July 30.

Requirements to the Complutense

In the same Coello -which He also testified as a witness in the case– specified that since the entry into force of the Regulation for the creation of extraordinary professorships from December 15, 2015 until August 1, 2024, a total of 124 agreementsyou. Today, half of them are in force. The chair taught by Pedro Sánchez’s wife is not among those in this group since the Complutense agreed not to renew it; just like It happened with the two master’s degrees that he taught at this university.

Now, in this new response they refuse to inform about the number of students under his/her care. However, the university did previously defend the election of the PSOE leader’s wife. According to what they indicated, the reasons that led them to choose it They were based “on his career.” “In effect, Ms. Gómez Fernández began her collaboration with this University as co-director of continuing training studies for Fundraising Technicians during the 2012/13 and 2013/14 academic years,” explained the general secretary. After these courses, Gómez was named co-director of one of the two master’s degrees she has directed, on Public and Private Fundraising. After him, he taught the course related to the chair and which has also been suspended by order of the university.