Spain's Justice Minister Félix Bolaños is facing a probe into alleged embezzlement and perjury, after a judge asked the southern European country's Supreme Court to open an investigation on Tuesday.
Judge Juan Carlos Peinado, who is leading the investigation into the case of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's wife Begoña Gómez for alleged influence peddling, requested the probe because Bolaños may have committed these offences in relation to the hiring of an advisor to Gómez.
