The UCO approves the creation of Begoña Gómez's chair, but detects "irregularities" in its management

MadridWhile Begoña Gómez trusts that the Madrid Court of Appeal will prevent Regulations for the creation of extraordinary chairs" includes the "possibility" that, "exceptionally and for justified reasons", someone "without a labor link" to the university may be appointed as director.

Now, considering that the Complutense has the "character" of a public administration, the report focuses on the contracting of services necessary for the development of the chair's software, which is also under investigation. It is a digital tool called Transforma TSC. Specifically, it points to two companies. And it points to some irregularities in the awarding of contracts.

Alleged irregularities

Making Science Group

On the one hand, Making Science Group received 20,000 euros from the chair for the development of the backendOn the one hand, Making Science Group received 20,000 euros from the chair for the development of the Deloitte Consulting

On the other hand, Deloitte Consulting received 79,000 euros in two contracts. These are two files that, according to the Civil Guard, "would have been drawn up as a mere administrative framework" intended to "lend an appearance of legality" to the contracting, which "would have been carried out outside the procedure established by the regulations". The report points out, for example, that the consultancy "had begun its functions" before the first contract was awarded, that the actual provision of services "did not correlate" with the formal deadlines and that the requirements and conditions required "were tailored to the predefined conditions" between Deloitte and the chair: "Offers would have been requested in a simulated manner or under conditions that led to a limitation of competition," it points out. For all this, it maintains that the awards were "premeditated".

Intellectual property

Finally, it indicates that the individuals responsible for the chair did not follow the "established protocol" by the Complutense in relation to the registration of "products susceptible of generating intellectual property rights".

No suspicious collections

In one of the annexes, the Civil Guard admits that the banking information it has analyzed from thirteen current accounts "corresponds" with the "development of the professional activities" of Begoña Gómez and that the entities with which she has worked "correspond to the main payers" it has identified. Therefore, it has not detected any suspicious collection. "Regarding the charges to the account, no movements are identified that could be related to the facts," it adds.

However, the report indicates that Pedro Sánchez's wife assumed "certain expenses from her personal sphere" for the software. Specifically, it mentions the payment for the registration of two trademarks, which cost a total of 357.64 euros; the registration of the domain www.transformatsc.org, but in this case the reason is unknown.

—, but in this case the reason is unknown.