SINGER ISABEL PANTOJA SENTENCED TO TWO YEARS IN PRISON

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The singer Isabel Pantoja has been sentenced to two years imprisonment and given a fine in excess of one million euro, for an offense of money laundering, although she has escaped prison on account of a clean record previously.

The former mayor of Marbella, Julián Muñoz, has been sentenced to seven years for money laundering and passive bribery, being incarcerated immediately without bail. His ex-wife, Maite Zaldívar, has also been sentenced to three years, three months and one day in prison for money laundering. All have also been given heavy fines.

Unrelated to this case, Pantoja faced controversy having performed a concert in Torrevieja in 2012 in which 1,374 tickets were sold, with the singer charging 88,000 euro for the performance, the promotion company allegedly making a huge loss on the event, with questions over the funding and profiteering of that event being raised.