Spanish Princess Cristina in Court as Fraud Case Begins
- Court has to rule on whether case against her will proceed
- Case is lightning rod for public concern over corruption
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Spanish Princess Cristina de Borbon appeared in court as a landmark fraud trial that became a lightning rod for anger at institutional corruption got under way.
Cristina, the sister of King Felipe VI, arrived at a court in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, shortly after 8 a.m. for preliminary hearings ahead of a wider fraud trial examining the activities of her husband’s Noos foundation. A judge ordered Cristina to trial in December 2014 over allegations she was an accessory to tax charges linked to her husband, the former Olympic handball player Inaki Urdangarin. The couple arrived together in the same car.