The Provincial Court of Madrid has given the green light for the trial by popular jury against Begoña Gómez, wife of Pedro Sánchez, to continue for two crimes: influence peddling and embezzlement. The court thus partially endorses Judge Juan Carlos Peinado’s decision to send the Prime Minister’s partner to the bench, to whom he attributed four crimes (in addition to the previous ones, business corruption and misappropriation). The court agreed, in turn, to return the passport to the wife of the PSOE leader and his assistant in La Moncloa, Cristina Álvarez, after the magistrate took them away and prohibited them from leaving the country and forced them to appear twice a month before his court – measures also annulled by this higher instance.
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