The verdict on the sister and the brother-in-law of the king, accused of corruption, will be revealed in march
MADRID.- Covered in his discretion habitual, Felipe VI lives a year-end anxiety. From one moment to another will come to light by the judgment of the case Nóos, the pattern of corruption that has undermined the prestige of the Spanish Crown and who is among the accused to the sister of the king, the infanta Cristina de Borbón, and her husband, Iñaki Urdangarin.
But the outcome of this “calvary court”, as it once described the Royal House, delay until the unthinkable in the middle of a novel of intrigue, tensions between the judges who must fail and suspicions of political pressure to influence the decision.
The trial ended six months ago in the Provincial court of Palma de Mallorca. With the expired term to issue the verdict, the court has just requested an extension until march in an attempt to resolve the discrepancies between its three members, and also to avoid a divided ruling that could unleash disputes of international impact.
The dispute, according to information that leaked from the courts, arose from a first version of the sentence that it proposed to declare innocent, to Cristina and to impose a sentence of seven years in prison Urdangarin, for whom the prosecutor Pedro Horrach asked 19 and a half years by a cluster of eight serious crimes.
The text as drafted by the rapporteur of the case, Samantha Romero, who works with exclusive dedication to that since July. But at least one of the other two judges considered it “very favorable” to the family of the king, according to judicial sources.
Everything is back to zero. The desirability of a unanimous decision after a process stickleback, which took six years -and that influenced the abdication of king Juan Carlos I in 2014 – is something in it that match the government of Mariano Rajoy, the Royal House and the judicial authorities that must oversee the case.
Urdangarin is accused of having created a false charity -the Institute Nóos – through which he earned 6.2 million euros of public contracts that, in large measure, they ended up in his pocket. I blame, like his partner, Diego Torres, crimes of embezzlement, malfeasance, fraud, traffic of influence, tax evasion, embezzlement and money laundering.
the infanta the judge as an active participant required two tax crimes of her husband through a company called Aizoon that they shared at 50%.
winding Path
The road to sit on the bench was tortuous, marked by political efforts to exculparla and operations in appearance malicious of those who are bent on her prey.
Neither the prosecutor Horrach, nor the State attorney -principal plaintiff – filed charges against her. If it came to the trial was by the particular charge of a controversial union officials called Clean Hands, which asked for the sister of the king to eight years in prison.
In a full trial, the leaders of this organization fell prisoners as responsible for a series of extortion to businessmen and politicians, who allegedly asked for the money to change not to harass them with complaints in the Justice.
Michael Bernard -one of the leaders of Clean Hands – he wrote a letter this month in which it is declared a victim of “an operation designed by the sewers of the State” to “the infanta was not convicted”. He reiterated his version never proven that the own king Juan Carlos, the father of Cristina and Felipe VI, had sent an emissary who offered him 2 million euros in exchange for withdrawing from the trial.
The discredit of the plaintiffs was nevertheless a relief for Cristina. In your environment are increasingly sure to be exculpada. The data that leaked on the first version of the ruling argue that a fine would be all the sentence against her. Judicial sources indicate that at that point there would be no special discrepancy between the judges, as happens with regard to crimes of Urdangarin.
“She is convinced of her innocence and that they are going to acquit. Everything else are rumors. Now we have to wait,” says Pau Molins, one of the lawyers of the infanta. Denies in addition to the publication of the journal The World that he attributed to Cristina having said that I couldn’t wait to finish the whole process “for not having set foot in most of Spain”.
Relocation
Stripped by his brother the title of duchess of Palma, isolated from the royal family, Cristina lives in Geneva with Urdangarin and their four children. Just let see for Barcelona, where they had the family mansion. In the last few weeks, leaked versions that you are planning to move to Lisbon, to reduce the expenses that it takes to live in Switzerland and be more close to Spain.
it Seems inevitable that you will have to re followed to your country to visit Urdangarin: even if you got a conviction soft, no one believes that he can avoid a stint in jail. She will not abandon them. Already resisted years of pressure. First his father and later his brother to divorciara and could ride away from the scandal.
The brother-in-law that hit the Borbon family
Iñaki Urdangarin
Brother-in-law of Philip VI
Former professional player of handball, in 1997 he married the infanta Cristina, and received the title of duke of Palma. He was manager of Telefónica and, since 2011, is being investigated for corruption
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