1 week Ago By ARA
The judge has indicted David Sánchez, brother of the Spanish Prime Minister, for the alleged crimes of malfeasance and influence peddling, leaving him on the verge of trial in the case of his position at the Badajoz Provincial Council. The judge has proposed trying ten other people in the same case, including the president of the provincial body and leader of the PSOE in Extremadura, Miguel Ángel Gallardo, and former advisor to the Moncloa government, Luis Carrero. Pedro Sánchez's brother has always defended his work as head of the Provincial Council's Performing Arts Office, a position he left when the judicial investigation was already underway due to suspicions that he may have been hired under false pretenses.
Sánchez denies the allegations made by popular far-right groups, who claim that he was paid without going to work and justifies his lack of physical presence by the fact that, despite being the head of an office, this "does not mean that there was a physical building" where he had to exercise his responsibilities. The investigating judge, head of the third investigating court in Badajoz, has set a 10-day period for the Prosecutor's Office and the prosecution to take a position on the opening of an oral trial or, if they deem it appropriate, to request further proceedings..
