The popular accusations led by Hazte Oír have reiterated before the judge their request for the withdrawal of passport, a ban from leaving national territory, and the obligation to appear every fifteen days in court for Begoña Gómez, wife of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez. Furthermore, they demand that she cannot dispose of her company's shares or the brands linked to the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).
Legal sources have explained to Europa Press that these requests were made during the preliminary hearing and the hearing for precautionary measures held this Monday in the courts of Plaza de Castilla (Madrid), to which Gómez, her advisor Cristina Álvarez, and the businessman Juan Carlos Barrabés, all of them under investigation in the so-called 'Begoña Gómez case', were summoned.
According to the same sources, the popular accusations have requested that identical precautionary measures be applied to Cristina Álvarez, except for those related to Gómez's corporate activity and brands, while they have chosen not to request any measures of this type for Juan Carlos Barrabés.
After just over three hours of preliminary hearing, the head of the Investigating Court, Juan Carlos Peinado, who proposes that a popular jury judge Gómez for alleged crimes of embezzlement, influence peddling, business corruption, and trademark misappropriation, left the precautionary measures requested by the accusations unresolved at the hearing, which now await his decision in the coming days.
During Monday's session, both the Public Prosecutor's Office and the defense of the three investigated parties requested the dismissal of the case in the preliminary hearing, according to the consulted sources.
In her defense brief, Begoña Gómez's lawyer requested her acquittal in the event that the proceedings finally go to trial, considering that the facts investigated by Peinado "do not constitute any crime" and that there is "bad faith" on the part of the accusers.
The Public Prosecutor's Office, for its part, also requested the dismissal of the case and indicated that, if the Court of Madrid were to order the opening of a trial, it would request the acquittal of the three defendants.
Meanwhile, Hazte Oír maintains its accusation and claims up to 24 years in prison for the president's wife and 22 years in prison for Gómez's advisor at Moncloa, Cristina Álvarez, for "alleged embezzlement" and for her condition as "necessary cooperator" in the crimes attributed to Gómez.
In addition, the popular accusation requests six years in prison for Barrabés for alleged crimes of influence peddling and business corruption.