Overview
- The court ordered Begoña Gómez to face a jury trial and banned her from leaving Spain, with judges instructing airports and border posts to enforce the travel restriction.
- Investigating judge Juan Carlos Peinado required Gómez to surrender her passport and to report to court twice a month after deciding she should stand trial.
- Peinado formally charged Gómez in April with embezzlement, influence peddling, corruption in business dealings and misappropriation of funds linked to the case.
- The probe focuses on a Complutense University chair co-directed by Gómez and alleges the post was used to channel public resources and private benefits.
- Gómez and Prime Minister Sánchez deny wrongdoing, critics demand Sánchez resign, and the case adds to several ongoing probes of his allies that could strain his minority government.