While he attends a summit of EU leaders in Brussels, a Madrid court decided to open a new investigation into Begoña Gómez, his wife
MADRID – A Spanish court has opened a separate branch of investigation on Friday against the wife of Pedro Sánchez, the prime minister, over alleged malfeasance and fraud involving EU funds.
While he attends a summit of EU leaders in Brussels, a Madrid court decided to open a new line of inquiry into Begoña Gómez, his wife, regarding potential irregularities in a series of EU-funded public tenders.
Since 2024, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, known as EPPO, has been the body responsible for conducting the investigation into multi-million public contracts awarded to businessman Juan Carlos Barrabés, via alleged mediation of the premier’s wife.
The EPPO dropped the case and sent the files back to Spain, which now the Madrid-based instructing judge is using to to examine whether a contract by state digital agency Red.es was rigged to favour the businessman.
