He judicial process against Begoña Gómezwife of the president of the Government Pedro Sanchezgo on your course and it is now when it became known that the popular accusation asks for 24 years in prison. She is accused of four crimes for which she has been prosecuted by Judge Juan Carlos Peinado, which are for alleged influence peddling, business corruption, embezzlement of public funds and misappropriation. Gómez’s lawyers have already filed an appeal for this request.
Regarding the rest of those involvedthe accusations They ask for 22 years in prison for Moncloa advisor Cristina Álvarez. She acted as Gómez’s assistant, while they requested six years for businessman Juan Carlos Barrabés for allegedly benefiting from several public contracts.
The various accusations
According to the accusations, by Make Yourself Heard, Vox, Iustitia Europa and Clean Hands, Gómez’s “professional career” before Sánchez’s arrival to the Presidency of the Government “was linked to the private sector of marketing, consulting and fundraising”but as of June 2018 “the person investigated, with full awareness of this and voluntarily, took a radical turn to it.”
Among others, the writing makes reference to the creation of the chair of the Complutense University of Madridby which Hazte Oír reiterates that Gómez, “taking advantage of her relationship with the President of the Government”, offered “directly or indirectly” to different directors of “large and medium-sized companies” her dialogue with her husband. And he adds that he also offered “his public participation” to, according to the organization, “obtain, in return, both economic compensation and the provision of services and work” for his “personal benefit” and “at zero cost to him.”
