Prosecutor’s Office of the Province of Madrid requested this Thursday the archive of the investigation, open to Begona Gomez, wife of the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sanchez, for trading in influence and corruption in business.
Self-proclaimed union Clean hands, The far-right filed a lawsuit yesterday in court in Madrid, although today it admitted that its actions were based on journalistic information, the accuracy or otherwise of which will be held accountable by those who published it.
The complaint led to Sánchez’s decision to cancel his agenda until Monday, April 29, to consider whether he will continue to serve as Spain’s chief executive.
According to tax sources, the prosecutor’s office contacted directly Provincial Court Madrid, the decision of the court, which accepted for consideration the complaint of the organization “Clean Hands and asked him to cancel and the case was opened.
The prosecutor’s office claims that there are no signs of crime which justify the opening of a criminal case against Sanchez’s wife, they specified EFE sources familiar with the case.
The document presented by the self-proclaimed union states that, using her status, Begoña Gómez would recommend or approve with her signature businessmen participating in public tenders.
It also states that one of the businessmen who received tenders worth 10 million euros later organized a master’s degree under the direction of Sanchez’s wife in African Center, from the training center Instituto de Empresa.
According to Manos Cleans, a Spanish airline Air Europe “agreed to pay 40 thousand euros per year to the African Center of the accused” and that “the agreement between Globalia (airline owner) and Business Institute “It included the provision of €15,000 a year on first class flights for the accused and her crew.”
In a statement sent to the media this Thursday, its Secretary General said: Miguel Bernard, He states that, having seen that the prosecutor’s office “acted outside of their official capacity,” he decided to file a complaint so that the court would “verify its veracity,” and assures that he exercised “the rights and responsibilities of a citizen.”
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Now, according to him, it is up to the judge to check whether the specified journalistic information corresponds to the truth or not.
In the note, Bernad calls Sanchez’s reaction “unacceptable,” calling them a “far-right organization” and implying that they are part of a “right-wing campaign against him, which he says is a lie.”
After Sanchez announced his decision to citizens through a letter on social networks
Meanwhile, the conservative and far-right opposition (Vox) They agree to accuse him of being a “victimist.”
Sanchez’s decision comes amid a complex political scenario in Spain, two weeks from elections regional Catalan, whose campaign starts today, and the European ones in June.
The Clean Hands Collective of Civil Servants is a “trade union” founded in 1995 by Miguel Bernad, who has filed all sorts of complaints about what he considers to be political or economic corruption detrimental to the general interest.
Berard was recently acquitted by the Supreme Court after being found guilty Spanish National Court for extortion from banks and companies.
The self-proclaimed trade union put the infanta on the bench Christina, sister King Philip VI, In 2016, at the trial of her then-husband. Iñaki Urdangarin, for two crimes against public property in which she was acquitted.