After two months of desperate attempts to avoid serving time in jail, Spanish singer Isabel Pantoja has been ordered to report to prison within three days to serve her two-year sentence for money-laundering after Málaga provincial court on Wednesday rejected all appeals and requests to suspend her punishment.
The 58-year-old singer had been sentenced alongside her former partner and ex-Marbella mayor Julián Muñoz following the Malaya case trial, a massive property kickbacks-and-bribes scandal.
Although she must now serve her sentence, she is however free to choose the prison in which she will serve time.
The court turned down her lawyers’ appeals to have the sentence suspended on clemency grounds, given that it was under two years and she had no prior convictions, due to the seriousness of the political corruption for which she was being punished.