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Infanta Cristina (on February 8th in Mallorca): "I don't know"
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Madrid - The Spanish princess Cristina answered a large part of the questions rather evasively when she was questioned by an investigating judge.
This emerges from the transcript of the interrogation that judge José Castro sent to the parties to the preliminary investigation on Thursday.
After an evaluation on elpais.com, the 48-year-old Infanta answered 182 of the 400 or so questions with her interrogation on February 8th with: "I don't know."
She answered 55 questions with: "I can't remember that";
and 52 with: "I don't know."
Cristina is suspected of being involved in a financial scandal involving her husband Iñaki Urdangarin.
In the more than six-hour interrogation in Palma de Mallorca, she denied having known anything about the ex-handball star's business.
Together with her husband, the Infanta was a partner in the Aizoon company, which, according to the investigators, served as a front company to evade state funds from the Nóos Foundation run by Urdangarin.
"My husband suggested that I should start Aizoon and I accepted it because I trusted him," said the Infanta.
"After that I had nothing to do with it because he took care of business."
She did not talk to her husband about business details at home.
The investigating judge accuses the king's daughter of money laundering and tax fraud.
The lawyer has not yet stated whether the Infanta’s statements convinced him.
He has to decide whether to drop the suspicion and stop the investigation against Cristina, whether the investigations will continue or whether charges will be brought against the 48-year-old.
Urdangarin has always denied the allegations against himself in the past.
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