ALERT: Sánchez’s brother, sentenced to nine years of disqualification and Miguel Ángel Gallardo to 18 for prevarication
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The keys Generated with AI David Sánchez, brother of the President of the Government, has been sentenced to 9 years of disqualification for prevarication in access to a public square. Miguel Ángel Gallardo, former president of the Badajoz Provincial Council, has received a sentence of 18 years of disqualification for two crimes of prevarication. The conviction of David Sánchez is related to the creation and awarding of a position as coordinator of music conservatories in 2017. The Prosecutor’s Office did not accuse David Sánchez as it did not see a crime, but the process was driven by popular accusations and parties such as Vox and the PP. The Provincial Court of Badajoz has sentenced David Sánchez, brother of the President of the Government, to 9 years of disqualification from public employment and from accessing elected positions for prevarication. This is a sentence very far from what the popular accusations requested, which raised the request for a sentence against Pedro Sánchez’s brother to six years in prison and 28 years of disqualification. The facts under accusation are related to his access to a position as coordinator of music conservatories for which he was hired in July 2017 by the Badajoz Provincial Council. This institution was then in the hands of the socialist Miguel Ángel Gallardo, also sentenced to 18 years of disqualification, in his case for two crimes of prevarication. Following the Supreme Court’s conviction of his political right-hand man, José Luis Ábalos, Pedro Sánchez now receives an adverse ruling against the first of his relatives who has sat on the bench. His wife, Begoña Gómez, is waiting for the Provincial Court of Madrid to decide whether he should go to trial before the Jury Court for four alleged crimes of corruption. Unlike the ‘Ábalos case’, promoted by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, the proceedings against the brother and wife of Sánchez have relied exclusively on a plethora of popular accusations (among them Clean Hands and Hazte Oír), as well as the Vox and Iustitia Europa parties and, in the case of David Sánchez, the PP. The Prosecutor’s Office supported the investigation of David Sánchez, known as an orchestra director under the name of David Azagra, but did not make an accusation as it did not see any crime. The sentence, which has no dissenting vote, analyzes the three facts that are the subject of the accusation. The first refers to the Plaza de coordinator of activities of the Badajoz conservatories, created despite the fact that neither the directors of these centers nor the unions considered it essential, and even less with a senior management contract. Evaristo Valentí, director of the higher conservatory, sent an email with the subject ‘el hermanísimo’ to Yolanda Sánchez, director of the professional conservatory, on May 19, 2017, attaching the bases for the provision of the position. Although Valentí was reduced to the level of ‘rumor’ the allusion to the ‘very brother’, the position ended up being awarded to the brother of Pedro Sánchez, who on those same dates was elected general secretary of the PSOE. The second fact is related to the change of name of the position of David Sánchez, who became responsible for the Performing Arts Office. Despite it being strictly a new job, the legal procedure provided for it was not followed, but rather the name was modified so that Sánchez could focus, in accordance with his personal preferences, on opera activities and not on the coordination of conservatories, for which he had been hired. Finally, the criminal acts refer to the creation of the position of head of section for coordination of centers and programs of cross-border activities, for which a friend of David Sánchez was chosen, Luis Carrero. Until then, Carrero worked in Moncloa, in the Department of Political Affairs, dependent on the Ministry of the Presidency. 23 days before the publication of the rules for filling the position in the Provincial Council of Badajoz, he received an email from David Sánchez in which he told him “as soon as you join I want to spend at least a week here to serve as support.” Carrero replied “I have no news or calendar about the incorporation, the last thing Candalija told me [Manuel Candalija, director del área de Cultura] “It was throughout November.”
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Source: This article was originally published by El Español – Home and adapted for our international English-speaking audience.
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