Alberto Núñez Feijóo has already ruled in the Begoña Gómez case. During the plenary session of Congress on Wednesday, news emerged that the Complutense University had asked judge Juan Carlos Peinado to investigate the activities of the president’s wife in a university master’s program. The PP leader showed a printed copy of an article with that information, only to confirm that this was already game, set and match. “Go to your office and write the third and final letter,” he told Pedro Sánchez. It is believed that he was referring to the letter of resignation.
The Complutense was the last extra ball in the case. What started with aid to Air Europa then turned into letters of recommendation signed by Gómez, several companies and the Madrid City Council. That was when the case ended up in the Peinado court with a complaint from the ultra group Schone Hands, which collected the articles that had already been published. The last leap is a university master's degree for business leaders for which Gómez received the gigantic sum of 6,817 euros. And this is where the story starts to smell not so good.
On Friday, Begoña Gómez was summoned to testify in court. On the advice of your lawyer, He exercised his right not to testify, as stated in the Constitution. To put it simply, in a democracy, a suspect is not obliged to cooperate with those who want to put him in prison. The idea is that the accusations prove guilt, not that the accused proves his innocence. Not testifying in the investigation of a case It's usually the smartest alternative. It cannot be said that he has done anything if he prefers not to speak.
That is not what the Popular Party believes. “He who fears nothing is not afraid to react.” “to the questions of a judge,” says Borja Sémper, who happens to have a law degree. “He who fears nothing, fears nothing when it comes to answering the opposition’s questions.”
Semper was not alone. Several PP deputies believed that the decision by Gómez and his lawyer was an admission of guilt. “If there is nothing to hide, “Why continue to avoid explanations?” wrote Elías Bendodo. “The saying goes: He who keeps silent, grants…” said Eduardo Carazo. Wherever the proverbs are, let the Constitution be removed.
Antonio Camacho, Gómez’s lawyer, told reporters outside the courthouse that the judicial investigation into Peinado no longer has any purpose after the Provincial Court of Madrid ruled that there are only indications that can be investigated in the contracts sent to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office. “Our position is that, by order of the Provincial Court, this procedure has no purpose at this time,” said Camacho, who also mentioned the two UCO reports that found no evidence of a crime.
The PP never refers to these reports in its statements on the case. If it were to reject them, it would be questioning the work of the Guardia Civil and it does not dare to venture into that territory. All its hopes are pinned on Peinado. It cannot be denied that the magistrate is doing everything he can. She has stated in writing that she intends to investigate Begoña Gómez for everything she has done since 2018, when her husband was elected president of the government. You will think that six years is a long time and that you can fish for anything if your rod is long enough. But don't call it a prospective investigation, because that is not allowed by law.
In the final twist in the plot of the case, the one who is revealed is the Complutense. She tried to appear as a private prosecutor in the investigation of the case, but the judge said no because it was not proven that she had been harmed. He asked Gómez for information about the master's program he was leading and waited. Before receiving it, he asked the judge again on July 1 to appear with a twenty-page document. That was the message that Feijóo spoke about in Congress and that made a lot of headlines.
The text contained the acknowledgement that I have not found any evidence of a crime regarding Begoña Gómez. “Investigative activities do not allow us to reach a definitive conclusion on the existence or not of damage to their property,” the text reads. That is to say: we have not found anything illegal, but it would be nice if the judge would give us a hand and look for something that would make us appear as an injured party in the investigation. Injured in what? They do not know.
Some headlines had said that Gómez registered software in his name that could be from Complutense. His statement reveals that after contacting the Intellectual Property Registry, he discovered that neither Gómez nor his company had registered that software in their names.
This Friday it was learned that there was a registration, but of a different type, namely that of a dot org internet domain. Contrary to what Complutense says, she did not know anything about it until it was published in the media. an email sent by the Patent Administration Department of the university confirms the opposite. In the communication, Gómez is explained – regarding the steps to be taken to register the domain – that “in the RTPI (Territorial Registry of Intellectual Property) they are strictly responsible for the registration of the website, literary/scientific work, multimedia, etc.” Apart from the importance of this data and the fact that the software is designed so that companies can use it for free, it is clear that this management was not done behind the back of Complutense.
The day after the letter was sent, Gómez wanted to deliver the requested documents to the university. It was time, the vice chancellor who heads the oversight committee handling the case could have said (Gómez's father had died shortly before). Quite the opposite. He didn't want to know anything. Suddenly, I had lost interest in the information which he had asked for for very questionable reasons. He replied that there was a judicial investigation going on and that he therefore did not want to interfere. It was something unusual, because at least he could have received it and sent it to the court.
The truth is that there is no open investigation in the court into whether Gómez caused any economic damage to Complutense. If this had been the case, the judge would have already accepted that the university would appear in the investigation as a private accusation.
The performance of the Complutense is more than suspicious. He does everything to give the impression that he is not helping Begoña Gómez. Here we must not forget that this university is in a very difficult economic situation, just like the other centers in Madrid. He has already informed his faculties of this They have to reduce their spending by 30%. The government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso holds the key to the money and invests the least in Spain per student.
It is known that the government of Madrid is not at all happy with the actions of the rector of the Complutense, Joaquín Goyache. It is curious because the PP supported his election by believing that its main rival was from the left, and in particular a supporter of Podemos. But now he hopes that he will be a key figure in the offensive against Gómez and he will not continue to insist on it.
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez's tweets, which doesn't stop announcing that the president's wife will end up in jail Like Sánchez's brother, they leave him pretty clear. He does it in revenge for the investigation that revealed that Díaz Ayuso's friend had committed tax crimes, admitted by his lawyer.