Armando G. Tejeda

Correspondent

The newspaper La Jornada
Saturday, August 3, 2024, p. twenty

Madrid. Begoña Gómez, wife of the Spanish Prime Minister, the socialist Pedro Sánchez, decided to go on the offensive and file a complaint for prevarication and disclosure of secrets against Judge Juan Carlos Peinado, of the High Court of Madrid and responsible for the investigation of the case against her for the alleged crimes of corruption in business and influence peddling.

Just as the president did, who decided to order the State Attorney’s Office to file a complaint for prevarication against Judge Peinado, now Begoña Gómez, through her lawyer, the former socialist Minister of the Interior, Antonio Camacho, filed a similar complaint.

In it, the judge is also accused of carrying out a Perverse and prospective instruction, totally prohibited against him, and having revealed key details of the case when they were under summary secrecy, including his first statement, which was recorded.

In the case of Gómez’s complaint against Judge Peinado, his litigant argues that a lawsuit was filed against his client general cause of unusual, erratic and prospective formin addition to pointing out the law enforcer of having issued judicial instructions manifestly unfair, unjustified and without legal protectionwhich would be precisely what supports the complaint for prevarication which, if accepted, could mean the expulsion of the judge from the judicial career.

The case against Begoña Gómez began with separate complaints from the far-right union Manos y Limpias and the association Hazte Oír, which were based on publications in the media, in which alleged meetings at the La Moncloa Palace between the accused, businessmen and representatives of the public university in Madrid were reported, which later bore fruit for the benefit of her professional activity.

Much of the complaint is based on these reports, which also contrast with the conclusions of the Special Unit of the Civil Guard and the Spanish Prosecutor’s Office itself, which proposed to file the complaint, despite which the judge decided not to do so.

This stubbornness is also the basis for the complaint against the judge by the State Attorney’s Office, representing Pedro Sánchez, who argues, among other things, that the rights of the institution he represents have been violated.