Pantoja ordered to prison within 10 days

THE PROVINCIAL Court has upheld the sentences given to Isabel Pantoja and Maite Zaldívar, who must present themselves at the prison gates within 10 days.

In a case linked to the prosecution of her former lover and Marbella Mayor Julian Muñoz, Isabel Pantoja; together with the Mayor’s ex-wife Maite Zaldívar and four others, all have had sentences originally served in April 2013 upheld.

Andalucian singing legend Pantoja was sentenced to serve 24 months in prison and pay a fine of over €1.1 million for crimes of money laundering.

Pantoja has 10 days to adhere to the court order. Failure to do so will result in the courts issuing a warrant for her arrest.

Muñoz, the ex-Mayor of Marbella, was sentenced to serve a total of seven years in prison after being found guilty of money laundering and bribery, as well as a fine of nearly €4 million.

Pantoja and Zaldívar, both of whom have had intimate relations with Muñoz, were viewed as accomplices to his crimes.