
The former vice-rector of Institutional Relations of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Juan Carlos Doadrio, arrived this month in the Senate, where the PP has an absolute majority. Doadrio was cited by members of the investigative committee which initially investigated the corruption plot of Koldo affairbut it is open to all cases that affect the government or the entourage of President Pedro Sánchez.
Doadrio assured that he felt “obligated” to propose the chair of Begoña Gómez, wife of the president of the government, who is under investigation for alleged crimes of influence peddling, corruption in business, professional intrusion, embezzlement and embezzlement of public funds. The cause began in April 2024 following a complaint from the pseudo-union Manos Limpias. Juez Juan Carlos Peinado executes the instruction.
The investigation focuses on Gómez’s activities at the chair of the Complutense University of Madrid and his links with companies that obtained public contracts or subsidies.
“I feel obligated to be vice-rector of institutions,” Doadrio says. “The chairs have something to do with me. If the documentation is good, it gives me the same thing as if I called Begoña Gómez or if I called Pedro Sánchez,” he says.
Doadrio assured that the regulation allows the rector to be able to “exceptionally” appoint a director of a chair that is not at the Complutense University of Madrid “each time there is a director”.
“If the regulations are applied, in this agreement, the exception that the rector imposes there,” said Doadrio, explaining that the regulations of the university center also allow the person who directs the chair not to be fired, as is the case of Gómez.
L’excargo de la Complutense reported that the legal consultancy firm approved the idea that Gómez had neither a diploma nor a diploma. “The response of the legal advisors was that, as it had not been envisaged in the rector’s exception that the director be licensed or qualified, for them the exception was well applied,” he said, indicating that it was Goyache who “promoted the chair” and that he limited himself to signing to put it into operation.
Later, a rumor spread that Gómez occupied a seat in which Sánchez was president of the government. “That’s what we used to say at the university. The best I hear is the echo of a chascarrillo,” he later said. Doadrio También said Gómez’s advisor in Moncloa, investigated in the case, María Cristina Álvarez, sent 151 emails from a Gmail account.