The Prosecutor’s Office has reached the sixth and, possibly, last session of the trial of David Sánchez, brother of the President of the Government, with the same conclusions with which the hearing began. There were no irregularities, there was no crime and, therefore, the court must acquit both Pedro Sánchez’s relative and the former leader of the PSOE of Extremadura and former president of the Badajoz Provincial Council, Miguel Ángel Gallardo, and the other nine accused. In the presentation of her final report, prosecutor Begoña García Boró has rejected the “interpretations” and “conjectures” that have been made of the thousands of emails intercepted during the investigation, in a subtle criticism of the report from the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard that pointed to the alleged existence of irregularities in the process of creating and awarding a senior management position in 2017 to David Sánchez, the change of name of said position in 2022 and the awarding another position in 2023 to Luis Carrero, friend of the chief executive’s brother.
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