Overview

• Begoña Gómez appeared for about 15 minutes in Madrid and answered only questions from her defense lawyer in her fourth court declaration.
• Judge Juan Carlos Peinado requested that Universidad Complutense de Madrid deliver emails in which aide Cristina Álvarez appears as sender or recipient, setting a 10‑day deadline.
• Cristina Álvarez, cited the same day over her role as Gómez’s assistant, exercised her right not to testify.
• Gómez acknowledged that Álvarez occasionally sent emails related to the Complutense chair as a personal favor and denied using her for professional work tied to public duties.
• Peinado also asked the Guardia Civil’s UCO for further analysis on the creation of the Complutense chair and related software repositories, as the probe examines potential malversation, intrusismo, misappropriation, influence peddling and business corruption.