The ex-king of Spain Juan Carlos, faced with the scandal and who lives in exile, has settled a tax debt of more than 4 million euros in his country, affirms the daily
El Pais
Thursday.
The tax arrears were due on the value of flights which the king had benefited from until 2018 from a private jet company and which he had not declared, says the daily, citing
"informed sources" .
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In December, the former sovereign, who reigned from 1975 to 2014 but has been in exile since August in the United Arab Emirates, voluntarily settled a first tax slate of nearly 680,000 euros.
This debt followed a tax declaration on previously unreported income.
An anti-corruption probe came to light in November into the former monarch's use of credit cards linked to bank accounts in the names of a Mexican entrepreneur and an air force officer Spanish.
According to judicial sources, this investigation aims to determine whether he used nominees to launder money after 2014, the date of his abdication and therefore the end of his immunity as head of state.
Two other legal inquiries target the finances of the former king.
One aims to determine whether Juan Carlos pocketed a commission in the context of awarding a contract to Spanish companies to build a high-speed train in Saudi Arabia in 2011. The other investigation was opened after a report from the money laundering prevention service and entrusted to the Supreme Court, the only one empowered to judge a former sovereign.