A group named Manos Limpias a pressure group, has launched a fraud lawsuit against Spanish King Juan Carlos’s daughter Cristina, the latest case to plunge the Spanish Royal Family into scandal. The group are alleging tax evasion and money laundering.
If the case comes to court, and Cristina is summoned as a suspect she would become the first direct relative of King Juan Carlo’s ever to appear in court.
The court on the island of Mallorca is investigating Cristina’s tax affairs and has said it will decide within weeks whether to formally summon her as a suspect.
Apart from Manos Limpias, “no other plaintiff has come forward over the allegations being handled by the judge,” said a court official.
The tax authorities have not brought any charges against Cristina and public prosecutors have said there is no case to answer.
The head of the state prosecution service, Eduardo Torres-Dulce, last month denied any favouritism towards her.
Cristina is linked to the business affairs of her husband Inaki Urdangarin , who is under investigation for alleged embezzlement of public funds.
Neither has so far been charged with any crime, but the investigations have thrown the family of Juan Carlos, 75, into the biggest scandal of his four-decade rule.
Judge Jose Castro in the Mallorca court is investigating allegations that Urdangarin and a former business partner embezzled six million euros ($8 million) in public funds via the Noos Institute, a charitable foundation that he was chairman of.
Cristina was a member of the board of Noos and with her husband jointly owned another company, Aizoon, which investigators suspect served as a front for laundering the embezzled funds.
The scandal, along with the king’s health problems and with the recent recession, has raised debate about his future reign.
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