Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, once the world's number-one tennis player, has been found guilty of fraud alongside her former husband, Josep Santacana, whom she blamed for the crime.
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00:00 The former Spanish tennis player Arancha Sánchez Vigario, sentenced to two years in prison
00:04 for hatching a plot to avoid paying a millionaire debt to the Bank of Luxembourg.
00:09 Her ex-husband, José Santacana, has been sentenced to three years and three months
00:13 in prison.
00:14 The former tennis player will not have to go to prison after reaching an agreement with
00:18 the prosecutor's office.
00:20 In addition to the fine penalties imposed, the sentence requires them to compensate the
00:24 Bank of Luxembourg with the €6.6 million of the unpaid debt.
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