The court costs of 200,000 Swiss francs (about $ 216,000) will be borne anyway by the defendants, including Juan Carlos, former Spanish head of state (1975-2014).
On August 6, 2018, the Swiss justice opened a criminal case for “aggravated money laundering” after the publication of press information according to which the king emeritus had received illegal commissions in the framework of public contracts obtained by Spanish companies, recalled the AFP news agency.
In particular, the suspicions centered on a contract obtained by companies in his country for the construction of the high-speed train between Medina and Mecca.
The instruction made it possible to establish that Juan Carlos actually received on August 8, 2008 the sum of 100 million dollars from the Ministry of Finance of Saudi Arabia in an account of the Lucum foundation opened at the Mirabaud & CIE SA bank in Geneva.
The procedure also showed evidence of other drafts received by Juan Carlos or Corinna zu Zein-Wittgenstein, his ex-lover, of several million dollars, “from Kuwait Y Bahrain“, according to the prosecution.
In June 2012, the Lucum Foundation account was closed and its balance, approximately € 65 million, was transferred to an account in the Bahamas of a company owned by Corinna Zu Zein-Wittgenstein.
After the investigation, the Swiss prosecutor’s office found that “the use of a foundation, as well as the tax domicile of the companies by the different protagonists, demonstrated a desire to dissimulate”.
The emeritus king of Spain who, surrounded by revelations in the press about his alleged opaque fortune, went into exile in August 2020 in the United Arab Emirates, is the subject of three investigations in your country.
The Spanish prosecutor’s office has extended its investigation for a further six months from the 17th of this month.
The initial proceedings were opened in Spain in December 2018.
Source From: Ambito
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