An accusation from the 'Koldo case' asks that Begoa Gómez testify to clarify her contacts with the masks plot | EUROtoday

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The investigating court docket 41 of Madrid shouldn’t be the one one during which the title of Begoa Gómez is talked about. In the National Court, within the court docket accountable for investigating the Koldo case, the looks of the spouse of the President of the Government has additionally been addressed, though on this case as a witness.

The affiliation Liberum, introduced as a well-liked accusation, yesterday I introduced an attraction earlier than the decide of the Koldo case, Ismael Morenoto rethink his refusal to name the spouse of the President of the Government as a witness.

In its attraction for reform, the affiliation considers that Gómez can make clear the operation of the plot and his enterprise with the masks. Liberum is targeted on monitoring the administration's actions in the course of the pandemic, which incorporates the huge buy of masks, the enterprise that gave rise to the investigation by the National Court.

In its request, the prosecution reported on Sánchez's spouse's contacts with folks below investigation such because the fee agent Vctor de Aldama. On a minimum of one event the chief director of Globalia was additionally current, Javier Hidalgowhose airline firm, Air Europa, would have intervened within the negotiations for the acquisition of masks.

“In the present moment”

Liberum understands that Gómez can provide investigators knowledge on the purchases of medical provides which can be being examined and, presumably, some others.

The summons was rejected by the decide, though not in an expeditious tone: “To date, without prejudice to what results in the future of the investigation, it cannot be inferred that the proposed witness has had knowledge of or relationship with the facts that are the subject of these proceedings”.

The standards of the Anticorruption Prosecutor Luis Pastor thus adopted: The alleged existence of such contacts or conferences shouldn’t be, in precept, indicative or revealing that Ms. Gómez might have had data of or any relationship with the occasions which can be the topic of those proceedings. .

The Prosecutor's Office concluded that it was not acceptable to summon her on the present time. The affiliation considers that it’s time to achieve this, one thing that has been bolstered by new parts. Among them, the initiation of a case in a Madrid court docket concerning the actions of Begoa Gómez.

“Timely”

“She must be heard as a witness, especially when knowing that she is being investigated for other facts that may well be communicating vessels with those investigated in this procedure,” signifies the attraction introduced by the attorneys. Alexis Jose Aneas e Immaculate Jan.

Also the event of the investigation fee within the Koldo casewhich has summoned representatives of Globalia to make clear its contacts with the plot, one thing makes it extra well timed than ever for Gómez to clarify what he is aware of on the Court.

“If the Investigative Committee of the Senate of the Koldo case has summoned (and perhaps the summons will be expanded) the representatives of Globalia due to their connection with the purpose of these proceedings, with all the more reason for Ms. Begoa Gómez Fernández, as a witness, to inform this Honor. She judged the content of her knowledge and information about the relationship of the Globalia group […] and the negotiations for the acquisition of masks, both of the eight contracts included in the investigation and those others not included,” the attraction states.


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