Begoña Gómez, wife of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, learned she had been formally indicted on four criminal charges moments after stepping out of a presidential motorcade in Beijing, where she was accompanying Sánchez on an official state visit. Judge Juan Carlos Peinado, who has been investigating Gómez since 2024 following a complaint filed by a fringe legal pressure group, issued the indictment as she arrived at the delegation's hotel — continuing a pattern in which major legal developments in the case have repeatedly coincided with high-profile international trips by the couple. The case, known in Spain as the 'Caso Begoña,' has been a persistent political liability for Sánchez, who came close to resigning over it last year; Gómez is due to attend an official state banquet at Beijing's Great Hall of the People later this week.