The Infanta Cristina de Borbón, sister of King Philip VI of Spain, will be judged on two counts of tax fraud. He is the first member of the royal family to sit on the bench since the restoration of the monarchy in the country in 1975.
Judge Jose Castro delivered Monday to trial against Cristina, Inaki Urdangarin her husband and 15 others linked to an alleged plot to embezzlement in the Mediterranean Balearic Islands.
The Infanta faces a sentence of up to four years in prison as “necessary cooperator” in tax fraud allegedly committed by her husband in the 2007 and 2008. Urdangarin is asking for more than 19 years in prison for eight crimes. The trial was held in Palma de Mallorca probably at the end of 2015.
The lawyer of the Infanta announced that it will appeal the decision. “It is as surprised as us and especially affected,” said Miquel Roca on the mood of Cristina. The case has blown up the image of the monarchy in recent years.
Analysts agreed that research was one of the reasons-not the only, which led to King Juan Carlos to abdicate in his son Felipe in June. Cristina, 49, is the sixth in line to the throne but it takes two years away from the official agenda of the monarchy. Local media speculated that the new monarch, who has brought fresh air to the crown, force your sister to renounce maintaining dynastic rights.
In a 150-page auto, Castro ended an extensive instruction four. The judge decided to try the princess against the judgment of the prosecutor, who warned prima facie case.
The Spanish courts have generally chosen to avoid the trial of persons who are charged by popular allegations but not by the prosecution. However, Cristina Castro could be considered “for profit participant in the crimes against the Treasury” of her husband.
The indictment alleges that Urdangarin and his partner, Diego Torres, allegedly appropriated some 5.6 million euros (6.9 million dollars) in public funds allocated between 2004 and 2006 the Noos Institute (non-profit) related to the sports world who presided Urdangarin. Cristina was unrelated to any relationship with Noos.
But the judge said that there are expenses of the couple in luxurious hotels, travel and salsa lessons, among others, billed to the corporation Aizoon, created 50% by Cristina and her husband in 2003. Aizoon was allegedly a “society screen”, which used Noos income as personal expenses, when in fact it was dividends should be taxed to finance.
Cristina denied knowing the activities of her husband in his statement to the judge Castro on February 8. Urdangarin, 46, is a former professional handball player and double Olympic medalist in 1996 and 2000.
The Infanta and her children moved to Switzerland in 2013. The change of address, officially for work, It was seen as the best way to put land in between to pressure from the media and public opinion.
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