BARCELONA, Spain — Former ladies’s Incorrect. 1 tennis participant Arantxa Sánchez Vicario and her ex-husband had been discovered accountable of fraud, a Spanish court docket dominated Wednesday.
The Barcelona-based court docket discovered that Sánchez Vicario and her former husband had invisible property in an struggle to keep away from paying a multimillion-euro debt to Banque de Luxembourg.
The four-time Lavish Slam winner used to be sentenced to 2 years of jail age, however she have shyed away from going at the back of bars because the court docket waived her sentence as a first-time culprit. She reached a trade in with prosecutors closing pace to confess to the accusations in trade for a discounted sentence.
Her former husband, Josep Santacana, won a jail sentence of 3 years and 3 months.
Sánchez Vicario and Santacana will have to additionally pay a tremendous of 6.6 million euros ($7.1 million).
The 2, who divorced in 2019, had denied the fees. Sánchez Vicario had blamed Santacana, arguing he were dealing with her cash and she or he used to be now not conscious about any unlawful tampering together with her nation property.
The court docket dominated, on the other hand, that despite the fact that Sánchez Vicario didn’t have the monetary wisdom to hold out the operations, “obviously she had full knowledge of what was done with her assets and was benefiting from them, with the full awareness of the debt she had with Banque de Luxembourg.”
Sánchez Vicario, 52, gained the French Revealed in 1989, 1994 and 1998 and the USA Revealed in 1994.
Data from the Related Press and Reuters used to be old on this record.
