Cristina Álvarez entered the Moncloa in July 2018 as «Programs Director» of the presidency of the Government although his real work was to be the assistant or personal secretary of Begoña Gómez for his private businesses. This was admitted to Judge Juan Carlos Peinado. The advisor had a privileged position in the organization chart of the Moncloa Palace, where she provided her services. According to the documentation incorporated into the Begoña caseÁlvarez is part of the 20 officials or eventual workers who work directly “in Palace.” It has level 26, the maximum among these employees.
According to the list of positions sent to Judge Peinado, in the Poncloa Palace, four programs directors, the position of Cristina Álvarez. However, it is known that it deals with the assistance to Begoña Gómez in its private activities. This was admitted, now charged, in her appearance last December.
Álvarez signed for Moncloa after winning Pedro Sánchez the motion of censure in June 2018. Just a month later, on July 16, he was already working for the president’s wife. It was Begoña Gómez herself, with whom she had a close relationship since they worked together in the Inmark consultant, which was put in direct contact with her through a phone call by offering her a “trusted” position. The wife of the socialist leader claimed that “they had told him that he could have a person of trust and advice, and that he would like her to be.” Gomez told him that this had been done on previous occasions with the wives of the president of the Government, something that is not true. He also said that he reports directly to Sanchez’s wife, the person “who hired her.” In short, it did not go through any selective process, or interview.
In her statement, the Director of Programs of the Government Presidency revealed that she deals with all the private activities of Begoña Gómez, which implied her work for the Company Institute and the Complutense University of Madrid. These issues include, he said, security issues, displacement, protocol, reports and contact other people. These functions are not limited to the activity of Sánchez’s wife as the president’s wife, in the corresponding public acts, but extends to his private work.
The investigation of Begoña case She revealed, for example, that this director of Moncloa was in charge of managing the day -to -day chair that Begoña Gómez directed in the Complutense until last September and even asking for funds from the sponsors.
«Begoña tells me to move you He would love to continue as employers of the chair, even with a lower amount. Willing to collaborate with you in what you need, ”she wrote to Reale’s director of Communication, according to one of the mails incorporated into the cause. On this extreme, he explained that Gomez asked him as a “favor” and that she did the management because she is her “friend.”
The director of the Presidency has taken care of managing the day to day of the chair and was also aware of the incorporation of companies, as Okdiario revealed. This newspaper also revealed how Cristina Álvarez accompanied Begoña Gómez to her meetings in the Complutense, to trips and other varied quotes, such as fashionable parades.
Declaration of Bolaños
The hiring of this advisor currently focuses one of the judge’s investigation lines.
In his appearance, this Wednesday, the Minister of Presidency Félix Bolaños He defended that the appointment of the advisor of Begoña Gómez was carried out as established by the Eventual Personnel Contracting Law, while separating his appointment.
Bolaños said that he did not know who the proposal came to designate Álvarez and that he was never superior to Álvarez, pointing here to Raúl Díaz, main advisor of Pedro Sánchez.
The instructor agreed to the citation of Bolaños after the statement of Alfredo González, the former Deputy Secretary General of the Presidency of the Government that testified last February. González pointed to the minister as hierarchical superior.
The judge opened this new line of investigation in the case when considering that Álvarez’s hiring could be constitutive of a crime of embezzlement of public funds.
