Overview

• An official UCO report on messages from Begoña Gómez’s Moncloa adviser concludes she intermediated with 11 companies, with emails spanning April 2021 to June 2024 and some sent from a personal Gmail account.
• The analysis drew on 121 emails provided to the case, of which 39 were incorporated into the report, as the inquiry examines the adviser’s role in managing matters tied to Gómez’s university chair.
• State auditors and Hacienda cite more than a dozen procedural flaws in contract files linked to businessman Juan Carlos Barrabés, including scoring imbalances, early exclusions of rivals by Red.es, and an exception for recommendation letters.
• The audit materials also note the winning bid lacked a required equality plan and that some documents showed missing signatures and deleted metadata, though experts say they found no evidence of content alterations.
• The government maintains there is “nothing to find,” stresses the emails do not reference the president or the Government of Spain, and says the adviser performed assigned duties, as echoed by the Fiscalía, while the PP seizes on the findings as confirmation of irregularities.