Bolaños declares against Peinado who met the advisor of Begoña Gómez “weeks later” of being hired in Moncloa
The Minister of Justice, Presidency and Relations with the Cortes, Félix Bolaños, has declared a witness this Wednesday in the case that Judge Juan Carlos Peinado follows against Begoña Gómez. In a dependency of the Páncloa Palace, Bolaños explained that he did not know Cristina Álvarez, whose hiring as an advisor to the president's wife was the object of the statement, and that her first contact with her was “weeks later” to start working in Moncloa. At that time, Bolaños was Secretary General of the Presidency.
During the statement, which has been extended for more than two hours, Bolaños explained that he has never been the head of Álvarez and has assured that there was no irregularity in his hiring, which was carried out following what establishes the regulations on eventual personnel. In addition, the minister explained that positions such as that of Gómez's advisor have always existed by requiring the figure of the wives of government presidents. Hajinado has interrupted assuring that this is not the subject of his investigation and has cut the prosecutor when he has tried to make the witness delve into that idea, inform Eldiario.es legal sources.
The interrogation is part of the last branch of the case opened by the magistrate, relative to an alleged embezzlement of public funds for the tasks carried out by the advisor in charge of coordinating the agenda of the wife of the chief of the Executive. Bolaños was the Secretary General of the Presidency when, in 2018, Cristina Álvarez, the secretary who attends Gomez in agenda matters, was hired.
Álvarez was summoned as a witness last December and acknowledged having sent mails and made efforts with the Complutense University in the name of Gomez, who co -directed a chair in that academic center. The advisor also explained that she had been hired to take her matters both official and private. After his statement, he agreed to impute it and claim his full call record.
The judge stood at the advisors of La Moncloa after knowing that Gomez had had Álvarez as a collaborator. The magistrate demanded that the presidency of the Government specify a list “of the different workers and advisors who perform their work in the Palacloa Palacloa.” Subsequently, he quoted Alfredo González, the high position of Moncloa who managed the appointment of the advisor of Gomez. At the time of the facts investigated, Bolaños was González's superior.
This high position explained to comb that with the change of government of 2018 he processed about a hundred appointments of confidence and that he did not specifically remember Álvarez's, which he also said he did not know. Hairstyle was very strange and asked if to access a position of trust you should not present a curriculum or overcome an opposition, to which González answered negatively.
