Begoña Gómez, the wife of Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has been charged with embezzlement, influence peddling, corruption in business dealings and misappropriation of funds at the end of a two-year investigation by a judge in Madrid.
Gómez, 55, has been accused of using her influence as the wife of the socialist prime minister to secure and manage a post at Madrid’s Complutense University, and of using public resources and personal connections to further her private interests.
That’s like discovering an appreciation of markets in hte current British cabinet. Just not what you expect.
The investigation into Gómez was triggered by a complaint from Manos Limpias (Clean Hands), a self-styled trade union with far-right links that has a history of using the courts to pursue those it deems a threat to Spain’s democratic interests.
Those evil far-righties, eh?
The decision to formally charge Gómez comes at a fraught time for Sánchez as the prime minister’s younger brother, David, is due to be tried next month on charges of influence-peddling. According to another complaint from Manos Limpias, David Sánchez was handed a bespoke job by the socialist-led council of the south-western city of Badajoz in July 2017, when his brother was the national leader of the socialist party. He denies the charges.
Meanwhile, two senior former figures in Sánchez’s government are on trial for alleged corruption. The prime minister’s former right-hand man, the ex-transport minister José Luis Ábalos, is accused – along with his former aide Koldo García and the businessman Víctor de Aldama – of taking kickbacks on public contracts for sanitary equipment during the Covid pandemic. Ábalos and García, who deny all charges, are facing sentences of 24 years and 19 years respectively while Aldama, who has already admitted to his part in the alleged scheme, faces a seven-year sentence.
Evil, evil, far-righties.
wtf is a right-wing — let alone “far right” — trade union?
One that actually helps make their members grow richer with time instead of impoverishing them at some future date thanks to haven bitten of the hand that fed them?
It used to be any union that didn’t slavishly follow Moscow’s lead. Rather like the difference between progressive and reactionary.
Now? I suspect it means they have policies the writer doesn’t like for whatever reason.
…after investigation triggered by group with far-right links
Obviously we’re meant to dismiss the charges because of this.
If she was really corrupt she’d give Gibraltar to Britain then get Spain to pay us £90,000,000,000 to lease back Catalan Bay…
It wouldn’t be Britain. Lebanon would have the least historical claim to Gib.
There’s nothing more far right than objecting to socialists lining their pockets.
The projection is extremely strong here.
It’s going to get a lot worse for Spain. They done pissed off Trump. He considers Spain a hostile nation.
Fortunately for the.rest.of.the.world, President Trump seems cognizant of the difference between nations and the rat-stain governments that rule them from time to time. The US has bases in Spain because that country had a better government at some stage. It can again.
Oh, it’s going to get way worse before it gets better.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2026/04/15/no-one-voted-for-this-socialist-spain-starts-process-to-provide-amnesty-to-illegals/
EU member Spain will spill it’s fine new citizens into the rest of the Continent, and there’s not a damn thing they can do about it. Reconquista be damned.
I wouldn’t count on that. France can always close the few border crossings. Sure, there’s hundreds of kilometers of open frontier between them. But the Pyrenees. A very hostile environment would add up to a lot of dead Africans..
I was under the impression there was free movement of people within EU.
Your impression is out of date. France has maintained border controls since November 2015 in a continuously renewed “temporary” exception to Schengen rules. The current exception expires at the end of this month, and I’ll be surprised if it isn’t renewed. Especially now.
Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovenia and Sweden also have controls on some or all of their borders. All except Norway include “migrants” as a reason for restrictions. Six include “terrorism” as a concern, with four of those specifying “Islamist terrorism”.
We got stopped crossing the Rhine in to Germany last year. We didn’t have to show passports but did get quizzed on where we were going. I suspect if we hadn’t been 2 old white people in a Brit registered motorhome but a van full of younger non whites it would have been a different story.
We’ve never been stopped crossing back in to France and have been travelling back and forwards since 2019.