Spain's Princess Cristina took the stand during her ongoing trial for alleged tax fraud on the Spanish island of Majorca for the first time on Thursday. Immediately after taking the stand, Cristina invoked her right to answer only questions posed by her own lawyer. She then sat and listened silently - but didn't respond to - questions posed by a lawyer for the group that leveled the tax fraud charges against her. The Infanta Cristina, as she is often known in Spain, then answered only the questions posed by her own lawyer during a tense 20 minute session. Princess Cristina de Borbón,...
- 3/4/2016
- by Caris Davis, @cd123
- PEOPLE.com
Spains' Princess Cristina de Borbón has lost her legal battle to avoid being tried for tax fraud after a Spanish court ruled that the trial must go on, making Cristina the first member of Spain's royal family ever to face criminal charges Cristina, 50, is charged with tax fraud as part of an alleged $6 million embezzlement scheme involving her husband and 16 other defendants, all of whom plead their innocence. Lawyers for King Felipe's older sister had contended that the Infanata Cristina, as she is sometimes known, was shielded from prosecution by a Spanish legal precedent known as the Botin doctrine, which...
- 1/29/2016
- by Caris Davis, @cd123
- PEOPLE.com
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