Spain King's Brother-in-Law Convicted as Princess Is Cleared
- Urdangarin jailed for six years and three months in Noos case
- Case became lightning rod for anger at Spanish corruption
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Inaki Urdangarin, the brother-in-law of Spain’s King Felipe VI, was convicted in a landmark corruption trial that became a lightning rod for public anger at abuses of the nation’s elite. His wife, Princess Cristina, was cleared by the court.
Urdangarin, a former Olympic handball player, was given a jail term of six years and three months by a court in Palma de Mallorca on counts including fraud and influence peddling. Cristina, King Felipe’s sister, was cleared of being an accessory to tax fraud linked to her husband’s business, according to a statement by the General Council of Judicial Power.