Spanish Premier Pedro Sanchez’s Wife Charged With Corruption

Given the amount of bribery going on, yeah this is about right.

I don’t know if I would chalk up European underspending leading to the war in Ukraine. The Russians expected the war to be over in a few weeks, they never expected any support from the EU, and assumed, largely correctly, the West would be slow to provide support due to the nuclear threat and internal bickering. Even if the EU had a clearer overmatch (which they collectively do) it makes no difference if you presume they will be too slow to react. Still don’t excuse Spanish underspending, they should really be bigger naval players for the EU.

It's also a lot easier to call out Trump's bullshit when your country is in an economic union that largely shields you from retaliation, and there are no real diplomatic repercussions because your relationship with the US is relatively unimportant to anyone. I mean, yay for Spain and everything, but they have as much to lose from campaigning against the US and Israel as the thousands of pro-Palestine protesters in non-US Western cities - nothing. They also have a similarly negligible ability to influence events in any way.

> there is a strong case to be made that they are THE cause of a million plus deaths over the past few years. No there is not. Although Spain and Europe in general should have and still should be doing more to ensure the continents security there is NO case to be made that Russias war of aggression against Ukraine was/is the fault of anyone but Russia. Furthermore the USA played a role in Ukrainian de-nuclearisation, an agreement in which they agreed to provide security guarantees to Ukraine (together with Russia). Those guarantee obligations have been consistently ignored since. First their NATO ambitions were swiftly dismissed by the USA and Germany, then when Putins “little green men” invaded Crimea and “separatists” attacked Donbas the response was comically weak and since the full scale invasion NATO countries have been drip feeding equipment to Ukraine in fear of Russia’s response. Providing Ukraine with enough weapons to keep them fighting but not enough to allow them to liberate their own territory. And that has also stopped from the Americans in 2025 when Trump came in office. Not to mention that he has been consistently trying to pressure Ukraine into accepting a defeat that simply isn’t happening. Is the European/ USA response to the war underwhelming? Yes. Has Europe viewed security as a low priority issue since the fall of the USSR? Absolutely yes. Are Europe and the USA responsible for the death and destruction Russia brought to Ukraine? F*** NO. What we are responsible for is not doing everything possible to throw those murderous dimwits back to their 4th world dictatorship *right now* so they can go back to killing each other rather than innocent Ukrainians.

Basically Sanchez made Spain to be like Hungary but with well played cards.

She is charged for "her status as the prime minister’s wife, which benefited the expansion, funding and operations of her university chair, decisions were made that “could have been obtained through a unique exploitation of her relational position.”" Which would literary mean that she as a PM's wife shouldn't be allowed to hold a job, even an unpaid one (like what she did), because her status as an employee might bring benefits to her employer.

A Democrat senator was just sent to jail for corruption.

fake hahahyou are a f****** human garbaje

Are you suggesting Israel is in control of Spain’s justice department and can order charges and prosecutions 😂

Maybe try following the news and then you'll feel less "strange"

Possibly because as I'm reading, it appears that it's the perception of conflict of interest that's driving this, not any actual corruption that's been brought forward with evidence? 

In this case, it's a known corrupt judge. The judicial powers in Spain have a long history of lawfare against left-leaning parties.

You are going to disagree with anything anyone says (classic right-wing strategy unless it involves a right-wing person), but there are no actual charges, it comes with the PM out of the country, and is 3 days after the PM criticized Israel and Trump.

There is not a single proof One of the charges cannot even be commited by her since she is not a public servant. The judge comes from the 4th turn (finger appointed) is husband father and uncle to charges of the opposition

The case is manufactured, the judge hss been doing it for two years for some really vague charges. The judge (whose daughter and nice are PP councillors in different "ayuntamientos" in Madrid) has to retire at 72 years old by law (he turns 72 this september) so he just wants to start this trial to keep it going until next year's spanish general elections. It's a clear case of lawfare (just like the right wing has been doing forever, specialy with Podemos) and time will prove it.

I don't know if you know this, but in Spain politics pick the judges, so yes, it's a right wing judge.

This. There are so many corruption cases linked to the party that the judge is probably overwhelmed

It can be both

Look up Juez Peinado. Upper courts are waiting to use this case of his as a way to get him out of his job. He's corrupt af. And i've never voted for psoe or even liked sanchez. But the truth is the truth.

Like Hungary?

Come on, and now say that the president's brother wasn't a corrupt either, that the fact he didn't even know where he worked in his public statements to the judge proves nothing to you, it's all the right wing's fault, right?

No proofs against her? the prime minister's wife WITHOUT a degree is directing a master's degree about how to get public funding from his husband. How f****** dense you have to be?

Abalos, Koldo and Begoña are all being falsely accused. All because of these right wing judges… Go touch some grass my dude

Name one

So you think being charged with a crime means someone is guilty of that crime?

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She used her family status to get a position in academia in a master's course she doesn't even qualify to attend. The university has reported to the court that it spent **€113,509** in public funds to develop specialized software for the academic chair she co-directed. Gómez is charged of misappropriation because she registered this state-funded software in her own name or that of her private company, Transforma TCS SL. Then she seems to be charged with business corruption and influence peddling for using her position at Moncloa Palace to secure private sponsors, this is textbook corruption

Sure lol. And now say that the president's brother wasn't a corrupt either, that the fact he didn't even know where he worked in his public statements to the judge proves nothing to you, it's all the right wing's fault, right?

When you say incompetent (I assume you mean corrupt)... Is that normal in Spain for a judge to charge someone? Also, did it come out of the blue or was there any noise about it before?

Propaganda. Do PSOE pay you? Now say that the president's brother wasn't a corrupt either, that the fact he didn't even know where he worked in his public statements to the judge proves nothing to you, it's all the right wing's fault, right?

Americans can’t help themselves, it’s a sickness. Every issue has to be somehow related to America / an American issue.

Naw, it’s just a dumb take with zero evidence.

It’s a sickness, they can’t help it

Oh plenty. And I’m willing to bet Trump’s friends had something to do with her being caught. I have no doubt Sanchez is complicit in her corruption so he should not have tried claiming the moral high ground and making a public spectacle of standing against Trump. Did he just assume Trump would quietly let that slide?