There was a time in which the assistant figure of the government's president occupied the informative holders only to extol their complete dedication and fascinate with the rapport between boss and employee. It happened with Jaime de los Santos, current member of the Popular Party Executive who, in the time of Mariano Rajoy in La Moncloa, charged the public treasury for performing the assistant position of Elvira Fernández. “The complicity between the counselor and Elvira is such that, when the first lady goes out to the street, she asks to always accompany her, although she is not part of her obligations,” the confidential revealed in September 2013.
Jaime de los Santos was appointed for a position in the General Secretariat of Presidency on January 1, 2013 and remained in it until July 29, 2015, date of his decline. He enjoyed a level 28 in the General State Administration and its remuneration amounted to an average of 60,000 euros per year. No judge investigated an alleged crime of embezzlement for the fact that the saints charged for giving all kinds of assistance to Rajoy's wife, including holding the bags when Elvira Fernández was shopping, as he captured a photograph of the Europa Press agency.
Of Los Santos is today Vice Secretary of Education and Equality of the Popular Party by decision of Alberto Núñez Feijóo. This Wednesday, after knowing the last summons of Judge Juan Carlos Peinado to Begoña Gómez, the former Women's Assistant of Rajoy said from the Congress Tribune: “Sánchez's wife on the bench and the town will judge it, they will no longer be able to talk about 'Lawfare'” (…) Does any relative to sit on the bench? Everything that Sánchez plays gets dirty, infected. ”
On September 13, 2013, nine months of the publication in the BOE of the appointment of Jaime de los Santos in the aforementioned position of Moncloa, the confidential published a article entitled: “Jaime de los Santos, 'The boy for everything' From Mariano Rajoy's wife. “” Who is the boy who takes the bags to the woman's president? “The journalist wondered in an article that tried to give context to the photos appeared in the heart press.
The text assured that both went to the tailor to adjust recently bought clothes when the photos were taken. “He entered the presidency and, since then, he is dedicated to all matters that have to do with the first lady, 'Viri': correspondence, trips, technical issues …”, added the information.
In the aforementioned article, other extremes of Jaime de los Santos were detailed that the aforementioned never denied, neither in that, in other subsequent articles signed by the same journalist in El Confidencial. “The complicity between the counselor and Elvira is such that, when the first lady goes out to the street, she asks to always accompany her, although she is not part of her obligations,” said the first article.
The role of Jaime de los Santos in Moncloa was already debated last December. Minister Óscar López compared his case with that of Cristina Álvarez, the assistant of Gomez to which the Judge Peinado also imputes a crime of embezzlement, and said that of the saints was the “staff shopper” of Rajoy's wife.
Of the saints he denied in the Antena 3 program in which he collaborates having played this function and attributed the comment to “a certain Tufo de Homophobia” by Minister López. Contacted by Eldiario.es, Jaime de los Santos defended that his work affected the public sphere of the spouse of the chief of the Executive and to send an email from Gomez or be among the receivers of another belonged to his “private activity”. For other explanations he referred to his television statements.
Before Judge Peinado, Begoña Gómez explained on September 11 that Cristina Álvarez had written some email on her part as “favor” she asked someone who in addition to her advisor and assistant is her “friend.” Álvarez herself had already explained to the judge in a previous statement that the personal factor influenced her hiring, as happened with other attendees, which must be available to the president's couple 24 hours a day. That is, the action for which Peinado imputes to Gómez and Álvarez to have embezzled public funds belongs to what of the saints qualifies, of his passage through Moncloa, as “private activity.”
Hajinado also keeps the current government delegate in Madrid, Francisco Martín, former Secretary General of the Presidency, a position he agreed when Félix Bolaños left him to become Minister of Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes. Before, Martín acted as a second of Bolaños. Despite the evidence collected by the instruction that neither of them participated in the hiring of Cristina Álvarez, Judge Peinado tried to make Bolaños be charged by the Supreme Court, given his condition as Afforado. Hairstyle continues with the investigation against Martín.
In fact, the judge's decision to impute Begoña Gómez and his assistant occurs after the Supreme ruin his plans with Félix Bolaños. The separate piece of the Begoña Gómez case that investigates combing part of a Vox complaint that was admitted by the magistrate, who appreciated indications of crime in the hiring of the assistant, but who refused to impute her already the president's woman.
Now, Hajinado considers that he has gathered indications of the participation of both in the deviation of public funds, although he does not detail them in the order for which he quotes them, together with Francisco Martín, to communicate that the procedure is transformed into the route of the Jury Court, competent to judge crimes of embezzlement.
“All the couples of the presidents have had a person who has attended them,” have repeated several members of the government. Those who make this statement have first -hand documentation that accredits it because it rests in Moncloa.
Rajoy's father's care
Of an alleged investigation for embezzlement such as the one undertaken by Judge Peinado also escaped at the time the contract by Moncloa of two people in charge of attending to the father of Mariano Rajoy, who died after his son ceased to be president of the Government.
Between May 1, 2014 and September 1, 2019, the Residences Assistant Francisco TN consists as hired as the Secretary and Office of the President of the Government, although it was one of the people who attended the father of Rajoy, 95 years old at that time and afflicted in the consequences of a stroke.
According to Eldiario.es in October 2015, Francisco shared that work dedicated to the care of Rajoy's father with María del Pilar GH the lace that Rajoy's government looked for for the latter was the deputy head of the General Secretariat of Presidency. Like Francisco, María del Pilar received an allocation that was around 30,000 euros gross.
The saving for Rajoy carrying his father's care to Moncloa was 3,600 euros per month, at a time when public resources remained severely diminished as a result of the crisis.
Other information from the time linked another relevant position of Moncloa in the personal assistance of Rajoy's wife. This is Valle Ordóñez Carvajal. Head of protocol of the president of the PP in the opposition, Ordóñez Carvajal arrived in Moncloa with Rajoy and went out with the motion of censure. To perform its functions, the position of Affairs Coordinator for the Presidency of the Government was created, framed within the General Secretariat of the Agency that at that time did not exist.
Despite the denomination of “coordinator”, sources of Moncloa at that time remember that they had no staff or other departments that depend on it. Its rank was that of Director General and its annual remuneration of around 90,000 euros. María del Valle Ordóñez Carvajal is currently working for José Luis Martínez-Almeida as an advisory vocal at the Madrid City Council. Through a spokesman she has only wanted to transfer that she worked only for Mariano Rajoy at six years in Moncloa.