Judge Expands Investigation into Begoña Gómez, Hazte Oír's Target

Begoña Gómez, investigated for software registered in her name

Investigated or charged? The vvife of the Prime Minister, Begoña Gómez, is listed as investigated in the case being handled by the court, which has been expanded by the lawsuit from Hazte Oír, while the UCO enters the Red.es headquarters seeking emails by order of the European Prosecutor. What were headlines for months have become a file with two open lines: one state, one European. The question is no longer just what she did, but how long the official narrative holds.

The term itself generates debate. Being investigated is legally correct; being charged, according to a current in the debate, is the adversary's mark. The result is the same: there is a person with a name and surname under formal investigation.

What the judge investigates and why he rejects the European argument

The expansion comes from the lawsuit by Hazte Oír, which attributes to Begoña Gómez the crimes of mismanagement, embezzlement, misappropriation, and practicing law without a license. The facts pointed to in that document are different from those investigated by the European Prosecutor and go beyond what Manos Limpias alleged, who claims the Prime Minister was "aware and a necessary collaborator" in his vvife's business. It is an accusation by a party, not a proven fact.

The judge has not bought the thesis that Brussels takes the case. In his ruling, he calls the idea that the European Prosecutor paralyzes the investigation a "self-serving conclusion" and warns that he maintains **two open lines** under his control with new documents incorporated. Translated: the matter does not stand still.

The Complutense software and invoices totaling 40,000 euros

The core of the assets points to a software program. According to published information, Begoña Gómez registered **two Complutense trademarks and one website** in her name from March 2020, and the university would have paid more than **40,000 euros** on the platform that was later inscribed in her name, with electronically signed invoices. The tool also had the unpaid collaboration of Indra, Telefónica, and Google, according to these reports.

Here comes into play the law approved by the Government itself. Article 58 of the Organic Law of the University System 2/2023 establishes that industrial and intellectual property rights derived from the work of university staff are the property of the university, *in no case of persons*. The paradox, if confirmed, is textbook.

Barrabés, Red.es, and the contract allegedly agreed upon before bidding

The other front is public contracting. The UCO report highlights that Juan Carlos Barrabés had not secured any Red.es contract until Begoña Gómez recommended him, and that neither before nor after were public funds granted from that agency to Innova Next or other companies linked to the businessman.

Added to this is a document that, according to reports, would prove that Barrabés and the Rey Juan Carlos University agreed on a contract before bidding, for a course for 3,000 people. And the UCO has entered the Red.es headquarters seeking emails by order of the European Prosecutor.

Air Europa: conflict of interest returns to court

The Madrid High Court has admitted the PP's appeal regarding the conflict of interest of Pedro Sánchez and Begoña Gómez in the Air Europa rescue, valued at **475 million euros**. The court thus reviews the resolution that had saved the president from that accusation. Meetings between the president's vvife and the then CEO of Globalia, Javier Hidalgo, are at the center of the file. A former executive of the company has confirmed in the Senate that she cooled her relationship with Begoña Gómez "trinc the rescue," as it began to be discussed that the president's vvife "may have overstepped."

The "end of Sánchez" we have been announcing for a decade

There is a review circulating in the debate that is worth keeping in mind. Since 2014, predictions of the president's fall have succeeded: the PSOE primaries against Madina, his expulsion from the party, the primaries against Susana Díaz, the motion of no confidence against Rajoy, two general elections, the pandemic, the pardons, the Yes is Yes law, the amnesty. In all cases, the announcement was identical, according to this review, and the outcome as well. The most cynical add the usual tagline: if he doesn't fall, change the law, pardon, or approve another amnesty and it's fixed.

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With two open investigations, one European and one state, a vvife who registered in her name the software paid for by Complutense, and a 475 million euro rescue being reviewed in court, the most repeated forecast remains exactly the same: this time it is serious. Like the previous eleven.