Infanta Cristina pays 600,000-euro fine into wrong account
Wednesday, December 17, 2014 @ 12:39 PM
THE Infanta Cristina has paid the nearly 600,000 euros she owes the tax office, but her lawyers have put it in the wrong account.
They paid it into the bank of the court of Barcelona, rather than that of Palma de Mallorca which is handling her case.
The mistake was highlighted when the court of Palma claimed it had not received the 587,413 euros, including interest, which she is said to have defrauded from the tax authorities via the company Aizoon, which she owned 50-50 with her husband, Iñaki Urdangarín.
Judge José Castro found out that the Duchess of Palma’s defence team had mixed up the last two digits of the account number, and has alerted the court of the error.
It is not known whether, with the money now deposited to refund the unpaid tax, she will escape criminal charges.
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