Iñaki Urdangarin has brought backmost memories to nan group of Palma, wherever he seeks a business aliases employment | Credit: Shutterstock
The return of Iñaki Urdangarin to Mallorca has caused tremendous anticipation, not only because of nan spot he chose for his vacation, but besides owed to nan astonishing absence of Ainhoa Armentia.
Seeing Juan Carlos I’s erstwhile son-in-law jogging on Palma’s Paseo Marítimo has brought backmost galore memories of an era marked by some highlights and shadows, news outlet Catalunya said. Seven years aft nan Supreme Court upheld nan condemnation handed down by nan Provincial Court of Palma, which would person sentenced Urdangarin to 5 years and 10 months successful prison, Infanta Cristina’s ex-husband has returned to Mallorca.
On February 17, 2017, Urdangarin was sentenced to six years and 3 months successful situation for embezzlement, prevarication, fraud against nan Administration, 2 taxation offences and power peddling. “As acold arsenic we know, this is nan first clip since nan conclusion of nan Nóos proceedings that Urdangarin has returned to nan land wherever he spent truthful galore happy summers astatine nan Marivent Palace,” said Informalia.
His book could beryllium a ‘royal’ bomb
Speculation has tally wild, rumouring that nan erstwhile duke is staying astatine a section businessman’s villa and has plans to activity aliases motorboat a task connected nan land related to a domiciled arsenic an advisor aliases linked to sports and individual growth. Since leaving prison, Urdangarin has only worked for nan Imaz Abogados rule patient successful Vitoria, wherever he met Ainhoa Armentia.
In caller months, rumours besides speculated that he was penning his memoirs. Spanish Royal expert, Pilar Eyre, was nan first to uncover news astir nan book. She said Urdangarin would beryllium finalising immoderate devastating memoirs, pinch a planned publication day successful January 2026. According to nan journalist, nan matter has been written by him and will person nan backing of an independent patient pinch nary ties to nan royal family. “The royal family should get fresh because successful January 2026, a long-range explosive will explode,” Eyre stated.
“Palma de Mallorca” is besides nan dukedom that King Juan Carlos gave to his girl erstwhile she joined nan award-winning athlete, a noble favoritism that, successful 1998, gave its sanction to a cardinal thoroughfare successful nan city: Rambla de los Duques de Palma de Mallorca, thing that Cristina and her hubby were delighted to accept. However, successful 2013, during nan Nóos lawsuit trial, nan City Council agreed to region nan plaques from nan Rambla base nan names of nan Duke and Duchess of Palma de Mallorca “out of respect for nationalist opinion,” aft noting nan outrage among Palma residents astatine nan grounds of imaginable crimes committed by Urdangarin and nan Infanta, who was besides prosecuted astatine nan clip but was yet acquitted.