“The investigation carried out does not allow any criminal action to be taken against Juan Carlos de Borbón”former Spanish head of state between 1975 and 2014, the prosecution said in its press release.
The prosecution alleged that it found “different reasons” to file the investigations: “insufficiency of incriminating evidence, the prescription of the crime, the inviolability of the Head of State (while he was king) or the fiscal regularization” carried out by Juan Carlos.
This file, which implies that the prosecution desists from filing a complaint with the Supreme Court of Spain, comes after a similar decision by the Swiss justice last December, which opens the way for the king emeritus to return to Spain.
His lawyer in Madrid, Javier Sánchez-Junco, indicated in a statement that he will transfer the prosecutor’s decision “personally in the coming days” to the former head of state and that he will later communicate the “decisions that Don Juan Carlos may take.”
Central figure of the Spanish transition to democracy after the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, the king emeritus was the subject of three investigations by the prosecution in Spain.
The most important of them sought to determine, since December 2018, whether Juan Carlos, 84, charged commissions for the award to two Spanish companies of a contract for the construction of a high-speed train in Arabian Saudi in 2011.
A transfer in 2008 of 100 million dollars by the king of Saudi Arabia to a Swiss account of which Juan Carlos was the beneficiary was at the center of this first investigation.
But the prosecution concluded that it was “a gift” received by Juan Carlos, which could have involved a crime of “bribery”, but that in any case has already prescribed.
The bulk of the money was transferred in 2012 to the Danish-born business consultant Corinna Larsen, Juan Carlos’ lover between 2004 and 2009.
The other investigations referred to the possible use of the king emeritus of credit cards linked to bank accounts in the name of a Mexican businessman and an Air Force colonel, while the last one sought information about a possible trust linked to Juan Carlos on the island. from Jersey.
Despite shelving the investigations, the prosecution said it had found “defrauded fees to the Public Treasury” between 2008 and 2012
by Juan Carlos, but the crimes he could have incurred have prescribed or cannot be prosecuted because at that time the then head of state was protected by immunity.
In fact, the prosecution was pleased to have been able to recover more than 5 million euros (5.5 million dollars) as a result of two tax regularizations carried out by Juan Carlos since the end of 2020, to try to avoid investigations.
The subject of an incessant drip of press information about his opaque fortune, Juan Carlos left Spain on August 3, 2020 to settle in the United Arab Emirates.
In March 2020, Felipe VI withdrew his annual allowance, of about 200,000 euros ($231,690), and renounced his eventual paternal inheritance.
Source: Ambito
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