The Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard has not found evidence to support the complaint against David Sanchezdirector of the Performing Arts Office of the Badajoz Provincial Council and brother of the President of the Government, for allegedly owning 1.4 million euros in BBVA shares. This is concluded by a report sent to the judge investigating the case in Badajoz.
According to the document, the asset declarations that Sánchez presented between 2017 and 2023 do not reflect the possession of a volume of shares that reaches the value indicated in the complaint. The Tax Agency He also agrees that there are no indications that he has declared assets of that magnitude.
The report details that, during that period, Sánchez declared stock values that ranged between 91,530 euros in 2017 and 68,469 euros in June 2023. Furthermore, the UCO emphasizes that these figures do not necessarily correspond to shares of BBVA itself, but rather to listed assets within the entity.
The researchers point out that the error could derive from a confusion in the newspaper article on which the complaint by the Manos Liminas pseudo-union was based. According to the UCO, the complainant would have misinterpreted the value of the shares as if it represented the number of titles, generating an erroneous figure.
Furthermore, the report points out that, according to the article in question, the value of the shares would have experienced a disproportionate increase, something that contradicts the real BBVA revaluation figures in that period.
Emilio Cortés, David Sánchez’s lawyer, considers that the UCO report “evaporates” many of the accusations. The lawyer, who has made a positive assessment of the judicial order of summons, considers that with the work of the UCO the accusations related to “an alleged unjust enrichment” and with the 1.4 million euros in shares of a bank that it was claimed that he had. Well, it seems that “things have been reduced a little more to 68,000 euros in 2024.”
The magistrate has said that the investigation into David Sánchez’s assets “has been a true personal, family and social audit that” his representative has been suffering. “We continue pruning and eliminating incriminating incriminating elements that, in an absolutely bulk manner, had been attributed to him at the beginning of the criminal investigation,” he said.
Although the UCO rules out irregularities, the judge has asked BBVA to urgently report on the nominal value of the shares declared by Sánchez in different years, from 2017 to 2023, to confirm the data. In addition, the president’s brother is summoned to testify as an investigation on January 9.
The Provincial Council says that the interview was “a residual procedure”
The first question from ‘Newtral’ was if it was true that to get the position in 2017 he only had to pass an interview with the provincial deputy without passing the opposition. “In no case is this a civil servant position, neither career nor interim, but rather a freely appointed professional management position whose call and selection process was published in the Official Gazette of the Province in which the merits that were valued and where the interview was a residual procedure,” explained the Provincial Council.
In that response, the institution regretted “the slander and infamy to which a person whose only sin is being the brother of the President of the Government” was being “subjected.” “We are obliged to respond,” he clarified to the aforementioned media, stating that “having to deny such a number of hoaxes represents a cost to the public coffers and is not something that is usually done.”
More than 64,600 emails intercepted
The UCO intercepted more than 64,600 emails from nine email accounts in the investigation. The report, of 453 pages, divides the content into three sections: modification of jobs and creation of the position of coordinator of activities of the music conservatories, performance of the work activity of David Sánchez and alleged unjustified increase in assets of the latter.
The investigation indicates that the preliminary proceedings began after analyzing corporate emails from the Badajoz Provincial Councilwhere signs of possible crimes were detected. According to the report, these events would be related to the creation and awarding of a job that David Sánchez ended up occupying.
The position, created in 2017, corresponds to the position of coordinator of activities of the music conservatories within the Culture area of the provincial institution. The investigation suggests that the process may have been designed specifically to favor the brother of the now president.
The analysis of the intercepted emails, which cover from January 2016 to December 2022, reflects that the square was proposed by modifying the relationship of jobs facing the 2017 Budgets. Subsequently, in 2022, a change was made in the name of the position, an action that is also part of the investigations.
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