The brother-in-law of King Felipe VI, Iñaki Urdangarin, sentenced to almost six years in prison for a corruption case, was released on parole this Wednesday.
Urdangarin, married to Cristina de Borbón, from whom he announced his separation last January, began serving his sentence in June 2018, since January 2021 he enjoyed an open regime, so he only had to return to prison to sleep, and since last June, not even that.
He was currently assigned to a prison in the province of Álava (north), where his mother and some of his brothers live, and before which he only had to comply with a weekly control.
Sources from the Basque Department of Justice confirmed to Efe that the corresponding Penitentiary Surveillance Court granted him conditional release, once he had served two thirds of the sentence of five years and ten months that was imposed on him.
Urdangarin was convicted of diverting more than six million euros (6.6 million dollars at current exchange rates) of public money between 2003 and 2006 to the Nóos Institute, a non-profit foundation that he himself presided over, a case in which Felipe VI’s sister was acquitted.
The prison situation of the still husband of Cristina de Borbón allowed him to maintain his professional activity in the Vitoria law firm where he has been working as a consultant for a year.
There he met his new partner, with whom he appeared photographed last January, which triggered the announcement of his separation from the sister of the King of Spain, with whom he had married in 1997 and with whom he has four children. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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