2024-04-25 15:10:00
The announcement of this investigation led Pedro Sanchez to be announced Wednesday evening, To everyone’s surprise, he was considering resigning. The socialist leader, who has suspended his public activities, will make his decision known on Monday.
“The public prosecutor requests the annulment” of the procedure opened on April 16 by a court in Madrid and “the dismissal of the case”, indicated the public prosecutor.
A “harassment strategy”
The procedure having been placed under the seal of investigative secrecy by the court, neither the latter nor the prosecution have given details concerning the investigation, which relates to alleged acts of corruption and influence peddling.
According to the online media The confidentialwhich revealed the existence of this investigation, justice is particularly interested in the links of Begoña Gómez, with the Spanish tourist group Globalia.
The CEO of this company, owner of the airline Air Europa, would have met Begoña Gómez while his group was negotiating with the government the granting of public aid in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Covid-19.
At the time, Begoña Gómez headed IE Africa Center, a foundation linked to the Madrid business school IE University which had, according to “El Confidencial”, signed a sponsorship agreement with Globalia in 2020.
Pedro Sanchez described these accusations as a “strategy of harassment and demolition” carried out by “media strongly influenced by the right and the extreme right” and supported, according to him, by the conservative opposition.
“Press information”
The complaint at the origin of the investigation was filed by Manos Limpias, a collective considered close to the far right, which admitted in a press release Wednesday evening that it was based exclusively on “press information”, including “ veracity” must be determined by justice.
“If they are not true, it is those who published them” who will have to “assume” it, “but if they are not false, we believe that the legal procedure must continue,” declared Manos Limpias.
Miguel Bernad, founder of Manos Limpias, is a former leader of a small far-right group, “Frente nacional”. He was sentenced to four years in prison in 2021 for participation in an extortion network, before finally being acquitted on appeal for lack of evidence.
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