Spain’s prime minister won’t testify in a probe alleging his wife’s corruption

MADRID (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez opted not to testify before a judge at the presidential complex as part of the investigation into corruption allegations against his wife, lawyers who took part in the questioning say. The hearing Tuesday lasted just minutes as Sánchez, one of Europe’s longest serving socialist leaders, is not obliged to testify against his wife under Spanish law. A legal activist group called Manos Limpias, or “Clean Hands,” alleged that Sánchez’s wife, Begoña Gómez, used her position to influence business deals. Sánchez has constantly said the case was a “smear campaign” aimed at damaging Spain’s leftist coalition government led by his Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party.