Judge Juan Carlos Peinado, who has been open a cause against Begoña Gómez for more than a year, has charged Francisco Martín Aguirre, current government delegate in the Community of Madrid. The judge has admitted a new complaint filed by Vox within the case promoted against the woman of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and has decided to mention to declare as “investigated” Martín Aguirre on May 14. The instructor indicates it for an alleged crime of embezzlement of flows for the hiring of Cristina Álvarez, the assistant of Begoña Gómez.
In a resolution issued on Monday, Peinado affirms that Francisco Martín was “the responsible and superior of Cristina Álvarez.” The Government Delegate was part of the General Secretariat of the Presidency from 2018 to 2023, where he came to occupy the position of Secretary General from 2021, when Félix Bolaños was appointed minister.
This movement of the magistrate occurs after the judge himself went on April 16 to La Moncloa to interrogate Félix Bolaños, minister of the presidency, justice and relations with the Courts. That day, the socialist leader assured the judge that he did not intervene in the decision to hire Cristina Álvarez as assistant to Sánchez’s wife; He defended the legality of the government’s action; And he recalled that it is “normal” that the women of the executive presidents have such assistants. In fact, according to legal sources present in that statement, Bolaños stressed that the women of José María Aznar and Mariano Rajoy had had their corresponding attendees.
In April 2024, the judge opened the case against Gomez after admitting a complaint of the pseudosindicato clean hands for two crimes (influence peddling and corruption in business). But then, he has expanded it, adding three more: improper appropriation, professional intrusion and embezzlement. Precisely, last March, Peinado gave green light to a separate piece to inquire about this last crime, considering that Moncloa could hire Cristina Álvarez to help Sanchez’s wife with her private activities. A thesis that both have denied, like the Executive.
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