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Daughters and granddaughters of ex-King Juan Carlos under suspicion

2020-12-09T21:45:57.598Z


Ex-King Juan Carlos I has not been heard from for months. Now he has submitted his data to the public prosecutor in Spain. Is he planning a return?


Ex-King Juan Carlos I has not been heard from for months.

Now he has submitted his data to the public prosecutor in Spain.

Is he planning a return?

Update December 9th:

It's all going on in the Spanish

Royal Family

.

Now, according to various media reports in

Spain, there is

also evidence that the

daughters

of

ex-King Juan Carlos I, Elena

 and 

Cristina of Spain,

with the credit cards that were registered in the name of straw people in tax havens like Panama and probably money from them Mexican businessman

Allen Sanginés-Krause

included, were traveling.

Juan Carlos I.

Former King of Spain

Born

January 5, 1938 (age 82), Rome, Italy

size

1.88 m

Spouse

Sophia of Greece (m. 1962)

They are said to have paid for shopping strolls in the Corte Inglés department store, large-scale Uber trips and numerous piano lessons.

According to the Spanish newspaper "El Cofidencial", the infants' children, i.e. Juan Carlos I's grandsons, also used the card.

The current royal couple

Felipe

and

Letizia 

probably never used the cards.

The Mexican multimillionaire

Allen Sanginés-Krause

admits to having given gifts to the ex-king, a close friend of his, but denies the connection between his money and Juan Carlos I's suspicious credit cards. He never sent money to the monarch.

Ex-King Juan Carlos contacts public prosecutor in Spain - is the penalty coming?

Update December 7th:

According to the Spanish newspaper "Las Provincias",

ex-King Juan Carlos I,

plagued by allegations of corruption, is said

to have transmitted

account details to the public prosecutor of

Spain

.

The public prosecutor also confirms that she will initiate anti-corruption proceedings against the former head of state.

Specifically, it would be about credit cards with funds of unknown origin that were registered in the names of straw people.

According to sources from the Ministry of Justice, the case is about 120,000 euros.

+

Will ex-king Juan Carlos I return to Spain?

© Andrea Comas / dpa (archive)

Compared to the newspaper "El País", the lawyer of

ex-King Juan Carlos I

stated that he was

negotiating

with the Ministry of Finance in

Spain

.

According to Javier Sánchez-Junco, the transfer of the data should be viewed as a voluntary self-disclosure of tax evasion, which could prevent a prison sentence.

The current head of state,

King Felipe VI.

, takes no position on the advance of his father.

Juan Carlos returning to Spain?

The royal house and the public prosecutor's office decide

Original

message

from December 4th:

Madrid

-

It has become quiet about Spain's *

ex-King Juan Carlos I

, who fled from Spain to Abu Dhabi in the summer - accompanied by worldwide media attention * after he was suspected of corruption in Spain.

But now "El País" announces that apparently some members of the Spanish

royal family

are considering visiting the disgraced former head of state in their new Arab homeland.

The decision about when and above all how

ex-King Juan Carlos I will

return

to

Spain

will be made by the royal family, especially

King Felipe VI

, according to the article.

Decisive for a possible return will also be which inconsistencies and incidents still come to light in the course of the corruption investigations.

Spain's

Defense Minister Margarita Robles told the news agency “Europapress” that she would

leave

the prosecution of

ex-King Juan Carlos I to

the courts and the

royal family

.

At the press conference, she was asked about a possible military intervention that could bring the ex-king to Spain and to court.

The politician categorically rejects this.

Abu Dhabi has no extradition agreement with NATO and regulates the repatriation of people to their home countries with contracts for each individual case.

It seems almost impossible for the Emirates to send back the Spanish ex-king who was very fond of them.

Queen Sophia Involvement: Was She Involved In The Corruption?

The Spanish public prosecutor recently also

targeted

the entire Spanish

royal family

.

During an investigation into a Swiss account of

Spain's ex-King Juan Carlos I

, which is registered with a company in Panama, a trace was found that also

burdens

his wife

Sophia

of Greece and other members of the family.

But Sophia will probably not be charged.

The

author of the new Juan Carlos biography "Yo, el rey" (Me, the King, currently only available in Spanish) is

asking what other acts of

ex-King Juan Carlos I

will come to light. , Pilar Eyre, after.

She not only interviewed members of the

royal family

themselves, but also researched the political environment.

One interviewee was, for example,

Spain's

former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.

According to her research, the ex-king had long been fascinated by the Arab monarchy.

“He made contacts in the Arab world as early as 1971 and wanted to live like the oriental kings,” she explains to the newspaper “El Diario”.

She is sure, "Juan Carlos I will never come back to Spain".

*

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List of rubric lists: © Andrea Comas / dpa (archive)

Source: merkur

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