The former mistress of the former king of Spain Juan Carlos said Friday, during a trial, to have been threatened in 2012 by the former head of the intelligence services who acted, according to her, on the order of the sovereign .
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The explosive testimony of Corinna Larsen, a German businesswoman, intervened during the trial of the sulphurous commissioner José Manuel Villarejo, in prison since 2017 and known in Spain for having registered without their knowledge a number of political figures.
Addressing the court by videoconference from London, Larsen, also known as her ex-husband Sayn Wittgenstein, claimed to have been directly threatened by General Felix Sanz Roldan, head of Spain's intelligence service between 2009 and 2019.
According to her, the order came from the king himself, Juan Carlos, of whom she was the mistress until 2012, two years before her abdication.
Corrina Larsen claims to have been in possession of sensitive documents concerning "
financial affairs
" of the king and the royal household, which the security services wanted to get their hands on.
General Sanz Roldan then contacted her several times to tell her that she would not be safe until she handed over the documents, going so far as to threaten her and her children, during a met at the Connaught Hotel, London on May 5, 2012, according to his testimony.
“
The general gave me conditions, instructions, recommendations that I had to follow.
And he told me that if I did not follow them, he could not guarantee my physical integrity nor that of my children
”, she explained in court, adding that these words had“
terrified
”her.
The meeting had been organized, according to her, "
on the express will
" of the king, who went into exile in August in the United Arab Emirates after multiple revelations on the alleged detention of an opaque fortune abroad.
Corrina Larsen says she then flew to Switzerland and claims to have found in her apartment in the Alps a book on the death of Lady Diana in a car accident in 1997 in a tunnel in Paris.
A few hours later, an anonymous call in Spanish explained to her that there were “a
lot of tunnels between Nice and Monaco
”, a city where she has lived since 2008. “
It's a lie.
I have never threatened a woman or a child,
”Sanz Roldan replied in court.
Corrina Larsen had spoken of these threats to José ManVillarejo in 2015, during a conversation that the police officer had recorded without his knowledge before mentioning this recording in 2017 during an interview.
Which earned him to be prosecuted for false testimony and defamation.