The combed judge entangled with the rescue of Air Europa after the setbacks of the hearing | Spain
Judge Juan Carlos Peinado, who investigates Begoña Gómez for more than a year, has been entangled with his inquiries about Globalia, the company that owns the airline Air Europa – which was rescued by the Government of Pedro Sánchez during the Pandemics of Coronavirus. Although the Provincial Court of Madrid He has already told him three times that this matter must be out Of his cause, the judge issued a new resolution on Monday to present that « maintains the application for preparing (a) expert report by (part of) the IGAE (general intervention of the State Administration) with respect to Globalia. » However, once this decision has been known on Tuesday through the press, sources close to the judge have insisted that their intention is to resign the line of investigation on Globalia; sliding so I could have made a mistake.
In his opinion on Monday, Hajinado clung to that, according to him, the Madrid audience had given green light to the IGAE to make an analysis of Globalia. The judge assured that he requested that inquiry through another resolution signed on June 24, 2024, where he also claimed information from the SEPI about the rescue of Air Europa. However, in that resolution of June 24, 2024, consulted by the country, the IGAE on Globalia was not requested, but about Innova Next, a company linked to businessman Juan Carlos Barrabés, charged in the summary (which the audience has approved).
After knowing on Tuesday the content of the resolution of the judge signed on Monday, sources close to the magistrate assert that the « spirit » of that brief was to follow the path marked by the hearing: that is, to leave the part on Air Europa and Globalia out of the case; and just continue with Innova Next. But, for now, it has not transpired that you have made an opinion to rectify.
Therefore, the new combing resolution further complicates the convoluted procedure. The audience has made the magistrate very clear that there are no indications to investigate Begoña Gómez’s relationship with the rescue of Air Europa. « These facts are excluded from this procedure, » he repeated for the third time on May 13. Moreover, he told him that, in case he understood that indications of crime of new crimes on this issue appear, he had to “deduce testimony” so that this party is sent to the distribution among all the Courts of Instruction of Madrid, in accordance with the law.
By then, hairstyle I had been committed to moving forward for months With his inquiries about Air Europa, contradicting the conclusions of the higher instance. The audience had cut that way for the first time in May last year, when he described suspicions as mere « conjectures. » And, in October 2024, the court had reiterated it again. But the judge continued to insist on the issue. In fact, at the beginning of this May, he dismissed several resources presented by the Prosecutor’s Office and the Defense to stop his decision to continue this part of the summary.
On that last occasion, Judge Peinado sought Ábalos casewhich referred to the rescue of Air Europa. Moreover, through a writing full of reproaches to the Prosecutor’s Officethe magistrate stressed that it was not a « whim to look for possible criminal acts » and accused the Public Ministry of pretending to practice the « ostrich technique »: « in the sense of not wanting to contemplate an objective reality (…) it seems not wanting to be in the world in which we live all the Spaniards, » he criticized.
