BBVA certifies to the decide that Pedro Sánchez’s brother doesn’t have the fortune that Manos Limpas attributed to him | Spain | EUROtoday

A non-existent fortune. The BBVA has despatched to the pinnacle of the Court of Instruction quantity 3 of Badajoz, Beatriz Biedma, a doc wherein she certifies that the worth of the shares deposited on this monetary entity by David Sánchez, brother of the President of the Government, had a worth on the finish of June 2023 of 71,411 euros. This determine could be very removed from the quantity of 1.4 million euros that the pseudo-union Clean Hands attributed to Pedro Sánchez’s brother within the grievance that led to the latest indictment of him and eight different folks – amongst them, the final secretary of the PSOE. of Extremadura, Miguel Ángel Gallardo― for alleged irregularities in his hiring in July 2017 by the Badajoz Provincial Council. All of them must go to court docket subsequent January to testify.

The banking data had been requested by the Justice of the Peace herself after a report from the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard indicated that the millionaire quantity included within the textual content of the grievance was an “erroneous calculation.” In that doc, the brokers highlighted that that they had discovered no proof of any unjustified improve in David Sánchez’s property. The police doc highlighted that there was “no evidence” that he owned a lot of shares in BBVA that reached the worth of 1.4 million euros, as acknowledged within the grievance, and highlighted {that a} report from the Tax Agency had reached the identical conclusion.

The Civil Guard attributed the info to an “erroneous calculation” by the complainants once they confused the worth of the shares with their quantity. In truth, the report detailed that these shares had been valued at a determine similar to the one which BBVA has now licensed. Therefore, they concluded that the accusation of Clean Hands “would not be consistent with reality.” Despite the brokers’ firmness on this level, the decide ordered on November 27 to difficulty a letter to BBVA in order that it might report “on the nominal value of the deposits of various officially listed shares that appear in said banking entity in the name by David Sánchez on the following dates: November 2017, November 2019, December 2021, November 2022 and June 2023.”

The entity’s response, to which EL PAÍS has had access, is an eight-page document in which it explains that the president’s brother opened a securities account in September 1998 and closed it last March. It also specifies the number of shares and their value on each of the dates requested by the judge, except for one of them “due to a technical problem.” In the tables included in the document, it is observed that in no case does the amount accumulated in shares by David Sánchez reach 100,000 euros, and it is always far from the 1.4 million euros attributed to him by the pseudo-union.

The complaint from Manos Cleans, supported by information published in the press, claimed that David Sánchez did not carry out the functions assigned to him in the Provincial Council of Badajoz as coordinator of activities of the conservatories of the province, that he did not go to his job and that He resided in Portugal presumably to avoid paying taxes in Spain. Furthermore, he stated that he had assets valued at two million euros, which he described as disproportionate to the salary he received and his previous work life. Following the complaint, the judge opened investigation proceedings on May 30 and requested extensive documentation from the Badajoz Provincial Council. He also commissioned the Tax Agency and the UCO to intervene in the investigation. The groups Iustitia Europa, Hazte Oír, Liberum and Vox joined the open case as accusations, in addition to Manos Médicas.

The judge subsequently ordered three searches in the Badajoz Provincial Council to intervene in the emails of several people, including those of Pedro Sánchez’s brother and provincial leaders of the PSOE. With this documentation, the Civil Guard prepared a report, which it sent to the magistrate in November, in which it pointed out that the job that was awarded to David Sánchez was created in a hurry in October 2016 – at that time Pedro Sánchez had finished to resign as general secretary of the PSOE, a party that was in the opposition—without detailing the “primitive needs” that were intended to be covered with him. However, the researchers did not reach any clear conclusion in their analysis and, in fact, admitted that until now they had not been able to specify “who came up with the initiative” to create the position. This document is the same one that emphasized that they had found no evidence of an alleged unjustified increase in assets of the president’s relative.

After that, the decide agreed to summon David Sánchez and eight different folks as defendants. This judicial decision was appealed by the Prosecutor’s Office, contemplating that the Justice of the Peace didn’t specify within the order both the proof towards every of them or the crimes for which they had been being investigated and, subsequently, it needs to be revoked. The decide flatly rejected this argument final Wednesday and confirmed the summons. Thus, David Sánchez should seem as an investigator within the courts of Badajoz. Initially the scheduled date was subsequent January 9, however the decide is learning whether or not to alter it to the seventeenth of the identical month, given the impossibility of the president’s brother’s lawyer to attend the preliminary date.