Barcelona star Javier Mascherano is potentially heading to prison after being handed a one-year sentence on Thursday for tax-evasion charges. According to Sport, the 31-year-old Argentine was also fined €815,000 after confessing to a pair of tax-related offences. The publication added: “Mascherano’s lawyer, David Aineto, has requested the automatic suspension of the one-year prison sentence […]

Princess Cristina was charged on Monday by a Mallorcan court with two counts of tax fraud- http://bit.ly/1nzWywb Princess Cristina is the first member of Spain’s royal family to be put on trial, according to the Associated Press.  http://read.bi/1OIdgQN http://bit.ly/1ZOs3nj

The Spanish Official National Gazette have just published a new regulation developing the Spanish AML legislation (Royal Decree 304/2014, of 5 May 2014, approving the regulation developing Law 10/2010, of 28 April 2010, on prevention of money laundering and terrorism financing).  http://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-2014-4742 This new regulation develops and clarifies many issues connected with AML matters affecting […]