Spain’s prime minister doesn’t testify in a probe into corruption allegations against his wife

Associated Press

MADRID (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has chosen not to testify before a judge who went to Madrid’s presidential complex for a scheduled interview as part of an investigation into corruption allegations against his wife. The government’s legal officers later filed a complaint against the judge “in defense of the institution of the presidency.” Sánchez is not obliged to testify against his wife under Spanish law. A legal activist group has alleged that Sánchez’s wife used her position to influence business deals. Sánchez has called the case a “smear campaign” aimed at damaging Spain’s leftist coalition government led by his Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party.