The list of concerns with which King Juan Carlos was able to arrive in Spain does not include any open investigation in our country. Neither in a court, nor in the Prosecutor’s Office, nor in the Treasury. The only active judicial case against the Emeritus is the procedure that is followed in the United Kingdom against him at the request of his former partner Corina Larsen, limited to the civil sphere and, therefore, without the risk of prison sentences.
The criminal horizon of Juan Carlos de Borbón caused his departure to the United Arab Emirates in 2020 and remained dark until March 2022, when Anti-Corruption archived in one fell swoop the three investigations it had under way against him.
Although it seemed so at the time, it was not the end of the worries, because the Treasury later opened a new investigation into a series of expenses that it had not regularized, including those related to various hunts. Also this administrative procedure, which never became criminal, ended up being settled with the payment of a penalty.
One of the investigations of the Prosecutor’s Office had also been resolved with income in the Treasury. Since they arrived before he was formally informed of the opening of the investigations, Don Juan Carlos was thus released from criminal liability.
In a first regularization, he entered a little more than half a million euros, for the undeclared income he received from the Mexican businessman Allen de Jesús Sanginés Krause. A second regularization amounted to 4.4 million. This time he was referring to the expenses in his favor paid by the Zagatka Foundation, set up by his cousin Álvaro de Orleans-Borbón.
Proceedings relating to a trust in the Jersey tax haven opened in favor of King Juan Carlos were also archived. No indications appeared linking him to the money, which was in the name of a friend of his.
In the third proceedings that the Prosecutor’s Office had opened, what was being investigated was the possible collection of commissions for the award of the works of the AVE Medina-La Meca. The Public Ministry ended up concluding that there were no indications of crime linked to the 64 million that were entered into a foundation linked to the monarch. Switzerland came to investigate that income, but also closed the case in 2021.
Where Don Juan Carlos is still subject to legal proceedings is in London. Corinna Larsen claims there compensation for the alleged harassment to which she would have subjected him so that she would return the money that she had transferred to him. The judge has rejected that the emeritus king continues to be immune and has decided to go ahead with the investigation of what happened after his abdication.
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