Hair sends to judge Begoña Gómez and from Moncloa they denounce "judicial persecution"

Madrid Judge Juan Carlos Peinado sends the wife of the Spanish government president, Begoña Gómez, to trial. This Tuesday he issued the order for the opening of oral proceedings for embezzlement and influence trafficking and it is planned that Gómez will immediately go to the accused's bank before a popular jury. This is the second time Peinado has made this move, as he had already tried it in June, but now he has done it after being moderated and also endorsed by the Provincial Court of Madrid. Read it all Subscribe to the Connexió M-30 newsletter To understand what is happening behind the scenes of the central government Subscribe At first, the judge attributed up to four crimes to Gómez and withdrew her passport, but the Court corrected him by archiving two crimes—business corruption and misappropriation—and removing the precautionary measures. Now, however, he endorsed Peinado's investigation: the instructor's thesis is that Sánchez's wife benefited from being the president's partner by creating the chair linked to the Complutense University of Madrid and that she later diverted a program created within the scope of this chair for "private purposes". In the same sense, Peinado also sends to trial Cristina Álvarez, who is Begoña Gómez's advisor at Moncloa, for the same crimes. The magistrate's decision comes just one week before his retirement: it will end his career on this same Sunday, September 27th. Moncloa has not waited to react. Sources from the Spanish government have condemned Judge Peinado's decision, as they consider that during the investigation the innocence of Pedro Sánchez's wife has remained "clear and demonstrated". "We are sure that this will be demonstrated in court. We maintain full confidence that the jury will be impartial and will deliver justice," they express. In the opinion of Moncloa, it is an "arbitrary and unjust" investigation that only responds to "the judicial persecution against Gómez for being the wife of the president of the government". A complaint that Pedro Sánchez has repeatedly made in recent weeks. In the recent interview he gave to El intermedio of La Sexta, he accused Peinado of having done "very wrong" to the justice system. Sánchez, on a trip From the Spanish government also point out that Peinado obtained this order during Sánchez's international trip to the United Nations general assembly. A fact that is not isolated: they remember that this judge usually makes decisions related to Gómez coinciding with Sánchez's foreign agenda. For example, on the day the Spanish president decided to close the investigation, the Spanish president had an important trip to China, where he went accompanied by Gómez. "The political intention, the arrangement and the dehumanization are unquestionable," they denounce without embellishment. Also from the PSOE denounce the origin of the case: they remark that it was initiated by the far-right pseudo-union Manos Limpias and that the Prosecutor's Office has maintained an opposing position during the proceedings. Now, what is certain is that if Begoña Gómez ends up being tried it is because not only Peinado believes there are indications: the Provincial Court of Madrid has also endorsed it. We are working to expand this information