BROTHER-IN-LAW OF KING CONVICTED OF FRAUD

MADRID Inaki Urdangarin, pictured, the brother-in-law of Spain’s King Felipe VI, was convicted in a landmark corruption trial. His wife, Princess Cristina, was cleared by the court.

Urdangarin, a former Olympic handball player, was given a jail term of six years and three months by a court in Palma de Mallorca on counts including fraud and influence peddling. Cristina, King Felipe’s sister, was cleared of being an accessory to tax fraud linked to her husband’s business, according to a statement by the General Council of Judicial Power.

The conviction marks the denouement of a scandal that revealed to Spaniards how institutionalized corruption had grown up during the long economic boom that had turned to bust by 2008.

Emerging as unemployment surged and the government slashed spending, the case contributed to a sense of popular anger that helped turn the anti-austerity platform Podemos into a political force.

Cristina was the first Spanish royal to face criminal allegations in court since the monarchy was reinstated more than 40 years ago.