The son-in-law of the King Spanish declared as charged

The son-in-law of the King of Spain, Iñaki Urdangarin, was called to testify as of accused February 6 before the judge in charge of investigating a case of alleged corruption, which gives a new dimension to the first scandal that sprinkling the popular King Juan Carlos.

The examining magistrate José Castro Aragon also lifted the judicial case secret, he said the High Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands in a statement.

The Duke of Palma declare before the judge in Palma de Mallorca, in the presence of his lawyer Mario Pascual Vives. Counsel, also spokesman of Iñaki Urdangarín, yesterday said Thursday, told the reporters that his client was "totally innocent".

"Everything that has gone out of all assessments of all information, since they have logically damaged or intended harm say its good repute", he said in reference to the media that published revelations about the case.

"Will now have the opportunity, as" u000a"he has said in a statement, to be able to begin to defend", added.

"The charge does not alter our position." We continue with the utmost respect for judicial action, which is the same position which we have always had in this matter. "We don't have any comment to make," said a leader of the House of the King.

Iñaki Urdangarín, former champion handball of 43 years, married the infanta Cristina, the youngest daughter of King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia, has been mentioned in an investigation for corruption in which the Institute Siempre, a society of patronage which he presided between 2004 and 2006 is involved.

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research takes place primarily by 2.3 million euros collected by the society for the Organization of the Balearic Islands Forum, a Conference on tourism and Sport held in 2005 and 2006. Diego Torres, then member of Urdangarin, already was charged in the case. u000aInvited by the King since 2006 to abandon the Presidency of Siempre, the Duke of Palma accepted that same year a position at Telefónica which forced him to move to Washington in 2009, where he lives with his family.

A way for the sovereign to a "first cordon or firewall" between the institution and his son-in-law, told AFP the journalist Pilar Urbano, who has more written about the family real.

On Wednesday, the House of the King published their accounts for the first time since the advent of democracy in Spain.

This decision was interpreted by the press as a gesture of transparency at a time when the case Urdangarín tarnishes the image of the discreet Royal family.

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