{
  "id": 5559566,
  "title": "Begoña Gómez reclama ser absuelta porque no actuó con \"ánimo de enriquecerse\" ni se \"apropió\" del 'software' de la UCM",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/04/begona-gomez-reclama-ser-absuelta-porque-no-actuo-con-animo-de",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-04T12:36:20.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Expansion ES",
    "slug": "expansion-es",
    "url": "https://www.expansion.com/economia/politica/2026/09/04/6a9abb42468aeb2a7a8b4576.html"
  },
  "original_language": "es",
  "account": "Begoña Gómez, wife of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, is seeking to be acquitted in her upcoming court case, claiming she never acted with intent to enrich herself and never appropriated the software from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). In her defense statement, which has been seen by Europa Press, she asserts that she did not use the software for private purposes, as alleged by the popular prosecution led by Hazte Ora. Gómez faces a jury trial for alleged crimes of embezzlement and influence peddling, which Hazte Ora is seeking 13 years in prison for her, following judge Juan Carlos Peinado's decision to seat her and her assistant Cristina Álvarez in the dock when the investigation concluded. Gómez maintains that the chairmanship, funded by personal funds, was merely a technical tool for web access, created in context of UCM's instructions. She also asserts that the university did not provide an operational avenue to register the domain and the technological platform was not finished for completing its registration, thus her acting as co-director of chairmanship was functional and provisional, with intent to prevent third parties from claiming the domain and using it until the project was finished and could be registered in the name of UCM.",
  "summary": "Begoña Gómez, la esposa del presidente del Gobierno, Pedro Sánchez, ha pedido ser absuelta de cara a su juicio, ya que asegura que \"en ningún momento actuó con ánimo de enriquecerse\" y que \"no se apropió\" del 'software' de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). Leer",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}