The choose investigating Begoña Gómez for alleged affect peddling has summoned the President of the Authorities, Pedro Sánchez, to testify as a witness on July 30 from the Moncloa Palace, the place the Justice of the Peace will journey to conduct the interrogation.
In a ruling issued final Friday, the identical day that Begoña Gómez appeared and refused to testify as a suspect, the pinnacle of the forty first Courtroom of Instruction of Madrid, Juan Carlos Peinado, accepted the request made by the favored accusations, led by Vox, which requested the declaration of the pinnacle of the Govt as a witness, in accordance with the Superior Courtroom of Justice of Madrid.
To conduct the questioning, the choose will journey to the Moncloa residential complicated, pursuant to articles 412 and 413 of the Prison Process Act (Lecrim), which, for some public officers such because the President of the Authorities, consists of the potential for taking statements “on issues of which they haven’t been conscious by cause of their place” at their residence or official workplace.
The choose summons Pedro Sánchez as a witness on July 30 – Picture: Eduardo Parra Europa PressPedro Sánchez’s assertion might be recorded, as established by the identical rule, as Decide Peinado has ordered in his decision.
In it, he requests that the IT providers of the Group of Madrid go to Moncloa on July 29 to put in “the mandatory units” in order that the testimony of the President of the Authorities “is recorded on the corresponding recording medium.”
The summons of the pinnacle of the Govt as a witness comes after his spouse, Begoña Gómez, invoked her proper to not testify final Friday, as she didn’t see enough ensures within the judicial process, as defined by her lawyer, Antonio Camacho, upon leaving the listening to.
This determination prompted the favored accusations to request the testimony of Pedro Sánchez as a way to discover out what occurred within the conferences held by Begoña Gómez and businessmen corresponding to Juan Carlos Barrabés – additionally accused – in La Moncloa.
The Justice of the Peace additionally issued one other order this Monday through which he agreed to cost the rector of the Complutense College of Madrid (UCM), Joaquín Goyache, whom he summons to testify on July 29, and who already testified as a witness a number of weeks in the past.
That is the second time that the choose has modified the procedural standing of a witness on this case: he already did so final Friday when he agreed to research Juan Carlos Barrabés, the winner of a number of contracts which can be the main target of the case, simply 4 days after he testified as a witness.
Thus, with Begoña Gómez, there are actually three individuals below investigation on this case, opened for alleged crimes of affect peddling and corruption in enterprise following a criticism by the self-proclaimed union Manos Limpias, which was joined by different authorized actions of accusations such because the ultra-Catholic group Hazteoír.
