On Monday Spain’s Princess Cristina will become the first member of the country’s royal family to be put on trial. King Felipe’s sister faces tax fraud charges as part of an alleged embezzlement scam involving her husband and 16 other defendants, who all deny the charges.

In the courtroom in Palma, Majorca, the princess will be accused of being an accomplice to tax fraud, along with her husband Inaki Urdangarin. His supposedly non-profit company was allegedly used as a vehicle to win falsely inflated contracts from regional government bodies, before channelling the money to personal accounts via tax havens.

The amount of public funds paid to Urdangarin’s Noos Institute has been calculated at €5.6m (£4.1m; $6.07m). Princess Cristina, 50, was a board member at the charitable Noos sports foundation and, with Mr Urdangarin, co-owned a real estate company called Aizoon, which prosecutors say was used to launder embezzled funds…[+]

A huge manhunt in Argentina has netted three jail breakers convicted of a notorious triple murder linked to drug trafficking. The fugitives broke out of a maximum security prison almost two weeks ago. Dozens of police commandos and sharpshooters homed in on the men outside the town of Cayasta, 600km (372miles) north of Buenos Aires. The first man was captured after their car rolled over. The other two escaped on foot but were soon arrested. The manhunt, carried live at times on television, used hundreds of police officers and had transfixed the Argentine public. (BBC)…[+]

The Mexican attorney general’s office says it will begin the process of extraditing recaptured drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to the US. It said the move was in line with US extradition requests from 2014. On Friday Guzman was detained and sent back to the maximum-security prison he escaped from six months ago.

Guzman, who was one of the world’s most wanted drug traffickers, escaped from there in July through a tunnel dug in the showers. Previous requests from the US have been turned down, but correspondents say Mexican authorities may have decided it is no longer safe to hold him in the country, such is his ability to bribe and buy officials.