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Spanish Princess Cristina to face fraud trial | |
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The Spanish king's sister, Princess Cristina, is to face a tax fraud trial over alleged links to her husband's business dealings. | |
It is the first time for modern Spain to put a royal in the dock to face trial. | |
Her husband Inaki Urdangarin is accused of embezzling millions in public funds with a former business partner. | |
The couple deny wrongdoing. Prosecutors in Palma, Majorca, say Mr Urdangarin's sports foundation misused public money. | |
It is alleged that €5.6m (£4.6m; $7.5m) of public money went missing from the Noos Institute, a charitable sports foundation, when Mr Urdangarin was in charge of it. | |
Princess Cristina, 49, is under suspicion over €2.6m of that money. She is the sister of King Felipe VI, and youngest daughter of the former king, Juan Carlos. | |
The allegations relate to business affairs in 2007-2008. | |
Mr Urdangarin and his then business partner, Diego Torres, allegedly used the Noos Institute to organise events for the regional governments of Valencia and the Balearic Islands at hugely inflated prices. |