Begoña Gómez. (Gustavo Valiente./ Europa Press)
Begoña Gómez occupies the entrance pages of the newspapers. The spouse of the President of the Authorities, Pedro Sánchez, is within the eye of the storm after the opening of an investigation in a Madrid courtroom for an alleged crime of affect peddling and corruption. Her determine has raised a variety of curiosity, since she has a protracted profession in each the non-public sector and non-profit associations. Even earlier than her husband, to whom she has been married since 2006, turned head of the Govt, Gómez targeted her profession on crowdfunding and fundraising, based on El País in a 2018 report.
The president’s spouse graduated in Advertising and marketing from the Increased Faculty of Advertising and marketing and Enterprise, a personal middle in Madrid, and accomplished her coaching with an MBA in Enterprise Administration and Advertising and marketing. These acronyms correspond to Grasp in Enterprise Administration. This can be a Grasp’s diploma targeted on the event of information and abilities to direct, lead and administer corporations and has a variety of weight on any resume.
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And because of their intensive educational coaching, the president’s accomplice has held a number of accountable jobs. From 1999 till 2018 she labored at Grupo Inmark, the place
She labored as a marketing consultant and was in command of “methods and coaching of Spain-Portugal groups.”
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As well as, she was director of the Africa Heart of the Instituto de Empresa (IE) from September 2018 to 2022. However her profession took a flip when she requested a go away of absence in 2018 with the purpose of adapting to her new place as consort of Pedro Sánchez. In that very same yr she turned a accomplice and coordinator of WAS (Girls Motion Sustainability), a non-profit affiliation whose predominant function is to raise sustainability to the primary strategic stage of corporations, entities and establishments.
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And she or he has additionally been linked to the Complutense College of Madrid, the place she was co-director of the Technical Course in Froundraising from 2011 to 2020. At the moment she holds three totally different positions within the public group. First she was ‘co-director of the diploma in Fundraising Administration for the Third Sector’, in 2012. Already in 2020 she started a double problem, in the identical middle as ‘co-director of the Grasp in Aggressive Social Transformation: the SDGs as a technique’ and ‘ director of the Extraordinary Chair of Aggressive Social Transformation’.
The knowledge that alludes to Gómez focuses on two points. First, the connection with the house owners of Globalia, proprietor of Air Europa, which was rescued by the Authorities through the pandemic. Second, his particular assist for a businessman who opted for public help and who was a professor within the Grasp of Social Transformation that Gómez directed on the Complutense.
Concerning Air Europa, based on El Confidencial, Gómez would have agreed on a sponsorship contract of 40,000 euros per yr for the airline with the IE Africa Heart that she co-directed. The target was to cowl scholarships, flights and the group of occasions. The settlement was signed in January 2020, earlier than the pandemic, and was not launched because of the well being disaster. The promised 40,000 euros weren’t accomplished, and the airline acknowledged having paid just one,716 euros for 2 tickets to London for Gómez and the president of the Africa Heart to attend an occasion.
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The media linked Gómez’s work at IE and the sponsorship settlement with the rescue of Air Europa in the midst of the pandemic. The airline acquired a whole bunch of tens of millions of euros in authorities loans to keep away from chapter at a time when lockdown slowed international air journey.
It was not the one firm helped with public funds. The PP supported the rescue and thought of it inadequate in comparison with different corporations that acquired more cash per employee. Regardless of this, he reported Sánchez to the Battle of Curiosity Workplace for not being absent from the Council of Ministers that accepted the rescue, alleging alleged hyperlinks between his spouse and the rescued firm. The grievance was filed.
As well as, some info has tried to hyperlink the rescue of Air Europa with the Koldo case of alleged corruption within the buy of masks through the pandemic. Businessman Victor de Aldama, the primary investigator in that plot, maintained relations with the Hidalgo household, proprietor of Globalia, and was current at conferences during which Gómez additionally participated. A few of these conferences came about a yr earlier than the Air Europa bailout was accepted and months earlier than the coronavirus was detected in China.
