The wife of Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s prime minister, faces multiple corruption charges after a two-year investigation into her professional life.
A Madrid court on Monday indicted Begoña Gómez with four charges, including embezzlement, influence peddling, corruption in business dealings and misappropriation of funds.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s wife has been charged with influence peddling and private-sector corruption. https://t.co/LPeqZKgg4X
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Following a two-year investigation, Judge Juan Carlos Peinado ruled that Gómez should stand trial for alleged misconduct during her tenure as co-director of two master’s programmes and a special chair at Madrid’s Complutense University, and potentially appear before a jury.
According to the court ruling quoted by national broadcaster RTVE, the judge stated that precisely because of her status as the prime minister’s wife, which benefited the expansion, funding and operations of her university chair, decisions were made that “could have been obtained through a unique exploitation of her
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