The President of the Spanish Authorities, Pedro Sáncheztalked about the corruption case during which his spouse Begoña Gómezwas summoned to testify by a decide and stated in a letter to the general public launched this Tuesday that each had been “calm”.
“We’re completely calm. There may be nothing behind this accusation, only a gross staging,” the socialist chief wrote in his letter revealed on the social community on June 9.
The decide of the Instruction Court docket No. 41 of Madrid, Juan Carlos Peinado, summoned Gómez on Friday, July 5, the Supreme Court docket of Madrid introduced on Tuesday.
The summons is a part of the investigation investigates a sequence of public contracts awarded to corporations owned by Juan Carlos BarrabésProfessor of the Grasp's program on the Complutense College, which Gómez co-directed.
The businessman might be known as subsequent Friday as a witness in a case that has sparked main political controversy in Spain, though his testimony continues to be awaiting a medical report resulting from alleged well being issues.
As well as, the decide determined to open a separate secret doc to find out whether or not the contracts beneath investigation are contracts which have already been signed with European funds The case subsequently fell beneath the jurisdiction of the European Public Prosecutor’s Workplace, which requested details about it.
The decide opened proceedings in opposition to Gómez for allegedly committing crimes Influencing peddling and corruption within the financial systemfollowing a grievance by the self-proclaimed “Manos Limpas” commerce union, which relies on press studies and which the general public prosecutor’s workplace has requested to be archived.