Spanish singer Isabel Pantoja has been ordered to report to prison within three days to serve a two-year sentence for money-laundering after Málaga provincial court rejected all of her appeals today.
The court ordered Pantoja’s “immediate compliance with jail time” for her conviction in the Malaya case trial, which involved a massive property kickbacks-and-bribes scheme in the Costa del Sol resort in April 2013.
The 58-year-old singer is free to choose the prison in which she will serve time. Her lawyer, José Ángel Galán, said that she would go voluntarily and not request a government pardon.
Since Pantoja faces a two-year sentence and has no criminal records, she was not initially expected to go to jail, but the court turned all her appeals to have the sentence suspended on clemency grounds, owing to the seriousness of the political corruption for which she was being punished. The Anticorruption Attorney’s Office, which is also obliged to produce a non-binding report in such cases, reached a similar decision.
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