FILE PHOTO: Inaki Urdangarin, husband of Spain's Princess Cristina, sits in court as a long-running investigation into the business affairs of his Noos foundation goes to trial, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, January 11, 2016. REUTERS/Andres Ballesteros/Pool/File Photo
MADRID (Reuters) - The Spanish King's brother-in-law Inaki Urdangarin will appeal against a court conviction following a trial for fraud and tax evasion, for which he was sentenced to six years and three months in prison, his lawyer said on Tuesday.
Urdangarin's wife, Princess Cristina, was acquitted of being an accessory to tax fraud at the end of the year-long trial, seen as a test of whether Spain's rich and powerful are accountable to the law.
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