Overview
- Gómez was formally indicted Monday on corruption, embezzlement, influence peddling and illicit appropriation, in a decision signed April 11.
- Judge Juan Carlos Peinado said the inquiry found sufficient evidence and wrote that the chair under review served her private professional advancement.
- The case centers on a chair at Complutense University of Madrid that allegedly used public resources and institutional ties to advance private interests.
- Gómez denied wrongdoing as Sánchez called the case politically driven, noting it arose from a complaint by an anti-corruption group with far-right links, while opposition parties demanded his resignation.
- The development increases pressure on Sánchez’s minority coalition as separate probes target his brother David Sánchez for influence peddling and former transport minister José Luis Ábalos in a suspected bribery case.