Peinado sends Begoña Gómez to trial for embezzlement and influence peddling

MadridJudge Juan Carlos Peinado sends the wife of the Spanish Prime Minister, Begoña Gómez, to trial. This Monday, he issued the order to open an oral trial for crimes of embezzlement and influence peddling, and she is expected to sit in the dock before a jury. This is the second time Peinado has made this move, as he also did so in June, but now he does so having been nuanced and also endorsed by the Provincial Court of Madrid.

At first, the judge attributed up to four crimes to Gómez and withdrew her passport, but the Court corrected him by archiving two crimes—business corruption and misappropriation—and suppressing the precautionary measures. However, it endorsed the bulk of Peinado's investigation: the instructor's thesis is that Sánchez's wife benefited from being the partner of the Prime Minister to create the chair linked to the Complutense University of Madrid and that she later diverted software created within its framework for "private purposes".

In the same sense, Peinado also sends Cristina Álvarez, who is Begoña Gómez's advisor at Moncloa, to trial for the same crimes. The magistrate's decision comes just one week before his retirement: he will end his career this very Sunday, September 27.