Condemnation In The Scandal Of The Spanish Monarchy

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

A gloomy day is lived this Friday in the Spanish Royal House with the sentence of more than six years in prison for a corruption case of the husband of the Infanta Cristina de Borbón, younger sister of King Felipe VI.

Iñaki Urdargarín, a 49-year-old Basque athlete, will have to serve a sentence of 6 years and 3 months for money laundering and tax crimes in relation to his work with a foundation in which he had deviated about 6 million euros, according to The authorities.

The money from the public coffers of different local administrations came to the foundation called Nóos to carry out different works and events that were never carried out, and instead ended up in the pockets of its managers.

The Infanta, who was also charged in the case, was exonerated in the verdict released today, although she and her husband will have to pay a fine of 512,000 euros - some are known in Spain, it was one of the hardest blows for the House Spanish royal since the restoration of the monarchy in the 1970s and contributed to damaging the image of an institution that, until then, had been seen as exemplary.

For this reason, the current Spanish monarch has distanced himself from his sister in recent years and removed her from his official agenda.