The Infanta signed without asking for explanations – La Gaceta Tucumán

The Infanta Cristina PALMA.-, sister of King Philip VI of Spain, asked to be acquitted of the two tax offenses alleged against him arguing that signed “no questions asked” writings presented her husband, Iñaki Urdangarin . This was disclosed in the statement of defense filed in court in Palma de Mallorca, where the judge José Castro instructs the so-called “Nóos case”, whereby both will be judged. Cristina’s lawyers maintain that he acted under confidence in her husband and remained “outside direction and daily management” of society that marriage had owned, Aizoon, and by which allegedly defrauded the Treasury. The judge Castro sent in December to dock to the Infanta Cristina as “necessary cooperator” in two alleged tax offenses allegedly committed by her husband in 2007 and 2008.

In the statement of defense lawyers now insist that there is no evidence suggesting that the princess was aware of the irregular activities Urdangarin as their knowledge on taxation were “minimal” and at the time of the facts “had no time or capacity or reason to inquire Aizoon management. ”

The lawyers also argue that never held formal meetings of shareholders of the company given the trust between the princess and her husband and that it “merely set the seal without asking those written explanations that, very occasionally, he asked to sign in his capacity as partner. ”

Cristina de Borbón , 49, will become the first member of the Spanish royalty who will sit in court in the dock on trial for which still no date.

To Urdangarin, a former professional handball player 47, the Prosecutor requests 20 years in prison. Will be tried for allegedly having appropriated six million euros of public money next to a former partner in the Nóos Institute, a nonprofit organization linked to the world of sport.

The husband of the Infanta is charged with nine offenses including embezzlement of public funds, fraud and money laundering. Both the princess and her husband were removed from the official agenda of the royal house in late 2011, when there was the complaint of former athlete.

The “Nóos case” was the biggest hit in the 38 year reign of Juan Carlos I of Bourbon , who abdicated in June at his son, now Philip VI. Cristina and her older sister, Princess Elena, ceased to be part of the royal family at the behest of the new monarch shortly after his accession to the throne.

Since 2013, Cristina and Urdangarin live with their four children in Geneva (Switzerland), where they moved in an attempt to escape the media and social pressure. (DPA)