Tax fraud

Princess Cristina’s Tax Fraud Trial Set to Begin in Spain

Princess Cristina of Spain is scheduled to appear in court on Monday, accused of tax fraud as part of a corruption case centered on money embezzled from public contracts that is bringing a member of the country’s royal family to trial for the first time.

Cristina, the 50-year-old sister of King Felipe VI, was ordered to stand trial in October after an investigation into whether her husband, Iñaki Urdangarin, and his business associates siphoned off about 6 million euros, or $6.5 million, disbursed by the regional authorities for organizing sports events.

Tax fraud

Texas tycoon Wyly faces $2 billion tax trial over offshore trusts

Texas tycoon Sam Wyly is set to face off against the Internal Revenue Service at trial on Wednesday over more than $2 billion the agency says he owes for using offshore trusts to engage in one of the largest tax frauds in U.S. history.

The trial in federal bankruptcy court in Dallas comes nearly a year after Sam Wyly and his late brother Charles' estate were ordered to pay the Securities and Exchange Commission $299.4 million for engaging in a massive securities fraud through those same trusts.

In the SEC case, a Manhattan jury in 2014 found the Wylys liable for scheming to hide from investors $550 million in trading profits in the stocks of four companies on whose boards they sat.