December 15 2015
The Spanish opera singer Montserrat Caballé has been handed a six-month suspended jail sentence and fined more than €250,000 (£180,000) for tax evasion.
The diva, hailed as one of the world’s greatest voices, was placed under investigation last year, accused of channelling earnings through a company in Andorra when she lived in Barcelona and thus defrauding tax authorities of €500,000, which she has since paid.