The Plaza de Castilla, the Madrid enclave for the Courts of Instruction, will leave the lethargy in which the weekends is added to live another media milestone in the instruction followed by Judge Juan Carlos Peinado against Begoña Gómez. Haly has summoned the president's wife, his personal assistant and the current government delegate in the region because he believes he has obtained “solid indications” that they committed a crime of embezzlement. It has already advanced them in a car that corresponds to continue the procedure against them by way that, to prosper, will lead to a trial with popular jury. In the appearance, the defenses and the Prosecutor's Office will ask for the archive and the popular accusations will specify on what their imputations base.
The magistrate takes advantage of the fact that he has appointed a quick judgments guard to fit the appearance there. The rapid judgments is one of the modalities of guards that the magistrates of Plaza de Castilla can do. His remuneration, additional to the salary they perceive, is one of the main incentives to assume the direction of an instruction court in Madrid, usually saturated with work. There is the circumstance that Peinado turns 71 on Saturday and that he only has a year of exercise, after having requested in 2024 the extension until 72.
On the outside, the usual protests have already been announced, perhaps more numerous because it is not a working day, in which Hazteoir walks trucks with speakers through the streets surrounding the court with posters that portrays Sanchez and his family as a mafia. Hazteoir has summoned a concentration in the immediate vicinity of the judicial headquarters from 5:00 p.m. under the motto: “You no longer have excuses! Begoña will be judged!” This organization, linked to the sect of Mexican origin El Yunque, exercises the lawyer of popular accusations, where Vox is also person.
As on previous occasions, the dean of the courts, María Jesús del Barco, resolved on Friday in favor of the request of the Moncloa security team so that Begoña Gómez enters the courts by car and for the garage. The law of the jury court specifies that, for this procedure, the accused must be summoned and “necessarily assisted as a lawyer of their election or, if not designate it, of ex officio lawyer”. However, it does not impose its presence expressly as it does for other phases of the procedure, such as the celebration of the trial. This fact generates controversy among the jurists about whether Begoña Gómez and the other two investigated are obliged or not to go.
The circular 4/1995 of the State Attorney General's Office, in clarification of the law of the Jury Court, establishes that “the presence of the accused is not indispensable”, since he already knows that he is being investigated. He also adds that in the appearance there are no instruction proceedings and, therefore, neither his statement. Only the terms of the imputation and always before the presence of its lawyer are specified. According to this circular, the absence of the accused should not even derive in the suspension of the appearance, which moves other scenarios such as the declaration in rebellion in case of absence.
Hajinado has ordered the transformation of the process according to the Jury Law after receiving dozens of emails that would demonstrate that Begoña Gómez assistant wrote to the former Vice -Dean of Institutional Relations from his boss. This was anticipated by former Vice Dean, Juan Carlos Dadrio, when he declared as a witness. The judge believes that this is to allocate public resources to an end for which they were not planned with a magnitude that reaches the category of crime.
Daadrio was the right hand of the rector of the Complutense University Gustavo Villapalos, which he also accompanied during his period as Minister of Education of the Community of Madrid, at the time of Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón as regional president.
Begoña Gómez co -directed in the Madrid University an extraordinary chair for which he did not receive remuneration and led two master's degree for which he charged 15,000 euros per year. The judge has ordered that the emails provided by Dadrio be analyzed by the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civi Guard. The parties have not been able to access those messages, although this Saturday they will have to request the archive or specify the accusation against the accused according to the evidence collected.
The order of transformation by the law of the jury is a procedure when the judge appreciates a crime such as embezzlement, including among which they must be tried by citizens. What sources of the case discuss is the rush, even precipitation, with which the judge prepared to set the appearance, without transferring the latest procedures and with resources pending to resolve. Even without practicing the proceedings that motivated those resources and that he ordered.
This is the case of the judge's order to seize all the emails of Begoña Gómez for seven years, those that have passed since her husband is president of the Government. The messages have not yet been delivered by the Moncloa and the judge has not expected to know its content to capture in its last car that he has already gathered “rational, founded and solid indications” of embezzlement.
Another urgent citation
The police are responsible for pointing out the rapid trials that are going to be held before the appearance of Begoña Gómez and the other investigated. Many of these rapid trials respond to crimes against traffic security committed in the previous hours. To celebrate them, the Judicial Office is open from 9 in the morning until 9:00 p.m., but courts of the courts ensure that they are not usually extended beyond 4:00 p.m. or 5:00 p.m.
As happened with the citations to the President of the Government, fixed hairstyle the appearance of his wife with a term that prevents an eventual appeal before the higher instance to be resolved before it is celebrated. Despite this, the defenses have been resorting to the Provincial Court these citations looking for their annulment afterwards.
The Provincial Court is pending to resolve the resources of the defenses against their imputation for embezzlement. The higher instance has already ruled in favor of investigating the tasks carried out by the assistant of Gomez and that they have resulted in an imputation for the crime of embezzlement to the three summoned this Saturday.
It happens that the Supreme Court ruled against imputing for this same crime, embezzlement, Félix Bolaños for his role as Secretary General of the Presidency in Moncloa when Cristina Álvarez was hired, the advisor. The judges of the high court made it clear that Bolaños could not be accused of the mere fact of having had a position of responsibility at the time of the appointment of that worker. This Supreme Decision can mark the way to the Provincial Court by ruling on the imputation made to Francisco Martín, current Government delegate in Madrid who replaced Bolaños in the Poncloa position.
This will be the fifth time that Begoña Gómez is summoned by hairstyle since the judge opened the case in April 2024 from a clean hands complaint that was limited to attaching press news. In the first two, Gomez accepted his right not to declare, but in the last two he took the opportunity to respond to his lawyer and deny any indication of influence peddling, first, and about the alleged embezzlement, in his last appearance, on September 10.