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In 2021, Spain’s national court found Manos Limpias guilty of using the threat of legal action and smear campaigns to extort banks and companies. That conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court earlier this year, but magistrates noted the group’s operations were ethically “reprehensible”.

What does Manos Limpias say about Gómez?

In his complaint, Manos Limpias accuses Sánchez’s wife of engaging in influence peddling and corruption while working at the private IE business school and the public Complutense University of Madrid.

While Gómez worked at the IE Business Institute, she met several times with the owners of Globalia, a conglomerate that owns Air Europa. This airline then received a pandemic-related bailout from the government, which was no different from the financial support that other European Union countries have given to strategic companies, but the complaint alleges that the bailout was orchestrated by Gómez.

The complaint also claims that Gómez intervened to get the government to favor a businessman who was participating in a program she supervised at Complutense University. When the businessman applied for a public contract, he submitted 32 letters of recommendation, including one signed by the prime minister’s wife. The contract was awarded by a government entity that has no direct connection to the prime minister’s office, but the complaint alleges that Gómez influenced its actions in one way or another.

Manos Limpias’ complaint consists of a letter accompanied by several press clippings, but without any concrete evidence to support his accusations; Since filing the complaint, the organization has admitted that it may have based its allegations on “fake news.”

Spanish legal experts note that the accusations made in the complaint do not themselves meet the legal requirements to accuse someone of a crime. On Thursday morning, Spanish prosecutors requested that the case be dismissed.