A Spanish court has announced that it has launched an investigation into the wife of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez for influence peddling and corruption.
The investigation once morest Begonia Gomet for alleged influence peddling and corruption began on April 16 following a lawsuit by the “Manos limpias” (Clean Hands) association, the Madrid court said in a brief statement.
Why is Sanchez’s wife being checked?
According to the online news website El Confidencial which disclosed the information, this preliminary investigation concerns Begonia Gomet’s relations with private companies that had received state aid during the Covid-19 crisis or signed contracts with the state, while her husband was the head of the government.
Investigators are particularly interested in her ties to the Spanish travel group Globalia, which owns Air Europa, at a time when the latter was in talks with the government to secure aid following a major drop in air traffic caused by the health crisis.
At the time, Begonia Gomet directed the IE Africa Center, an institution linked to Madrid’s IE University business school, a position she left in 2022. According to El Confidencial, the IE Africa Center had “signed a sponsorship agreement with Globalia in 2020″ and Begonia Gomet had participated in a “private meeting with its CEO Javier Intaglio while Globalia was negotiating its multi-million euro rescue plan with the government”.
This plan allowed 475 million euros to be granted to Air Europa in November 2020. Asked today in Parliament regarding this case, the Pedro Sanchez he said he has confidence in justice. “A day like today, following the news I heard, however, I still believe in the justice of my country,” said the Socialist leader.
According to iefimerida, following the first revelations of the press regarding this case, the Spanish right multiplied the criticisms once morest the prime minister.
The announcement of the start of the investigation is “important enough for the head of the government to give explanations to the Spanish”, Esther Munioth, a member of the leadership of the right-wing People’s Party (PP), told reporters today.
“Manos limpias”, founded in 1995, has brought many lawsuits in recent years and was the civil plaintiff in several corruption trials. It is considered to be close to the extreme right, mainly because of its secretary-general Miguel Bernard, a former official of the Frente Naconal party that disbanded in 1993.
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