{"id":479122,"date":"2025-08-18T21:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T01:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/a-judge-charges-pedro-sanchezs-wife-with-embezzlement-in-her-advisors-contract\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T21:37:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T01:37:29","slug":"a-judge-charges-pedro-sanchezs-wife-with-embezzlement-in-her-advisors-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/a-judge-charges-pedro-sanchezs-wife-with-embezzlement-in-her-advisors-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"A judge charges Pedro S\u00e1nchez’s wife with embezzlement in her advisor’s contract"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Madrid.-<\/strong> A judge charged this Monday Bego\u00f1a G\u00f3mez,<\/strong> wife of the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro S\u00e1nchez, for an alleged embezzlement in the hiring of her advisor, also under investigation for the same matter, and summoned both to testify in September.<\/p>\n\n\nG\u00f3mez was already being investigated by the same magistrate, Juan Carlos Peinado, for the alleged crimes of influence peddling, corruption in business, misappropriation of brand, and intrusion in her work as co-director of two master’s degrees and an extraordinary chair at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).<\/strong>\n\n\n

You may be interested in:<\/strong> Pedro S\u00e1nchez decides to continue at the head of the Government<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nNow the judge calls the wife of the Spanish Prime Minister and her advisor, Cristina \u00c1lvarez, to testify. She already did so as a witness last December to give explanations about several journalistic reports that claimed she dedicated part of her time to helping G\u00f3mez in his work at the Complutense and other activities with companies with which she collaborated.\n\nThe investigation will have to focus on whether \u00c1lvarez “exceeded his authority in the performance of the public functions entrusted to him to favor the criminal plan of the investigated in the crime of influence peddling, by diverting public funds improperly placed at the service of particular or strictly private interests”, according to a ruling of the Provincial Court of Madrid.\n\n\u00c1lvarez was hired in 2018, when the current Spanish Minister of Justice, Felix Bola\u00f1os, was Secretary General of the Presidency, the body responsible for hiring G\u00f3mez’s advisor.\n\nIn June, magistrate Peinado requested the indictment of Bola\u00f1os for embezzlement and perjury after he had testified in April, but the Supreme Court refused to investigate the minister.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Madrid.- A judge charged this Monday Bego\u00f1a G\u00f3mez, wife of the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro S\u00e1nchez, for an alleged embezzlement in the hiring of her advisor, also under investigation for the same matter, and summoned both to testify in September. G\u00f3mez was already being investigated by the same magistrate, Juan Carlos Peinado, for the alleged […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":479123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[16739],"class_list":["post-479122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international","tag-pedro-sanchez"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-20DM","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/iFUTYoPR.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/iFUTYoPR.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}