A judge investigates the trusted doctor of Juan Carlos I in Barcelona for tax fraud

Juan Carlos I, upon his arrival at Vigo airport, last May.Samuel Sánchez

A Barcelona judge is keeping an investigation open for tax fraud against two people close to Juan Carlos I: the doctor Manuel Sánchez Sánchez and the Mexican tycoon Allen Sanginés-Krause.

Sánchez is one of the trusted doctors of the King Emeritus, who has undergone preventive medicine and anti-aging treatments at his Barcelona clinic.

Sanginés-Krause is a close friend who paid for some of those services, which the Prosecutor's Office investigated and filed after the extraordinary regularization presented by the former head of state.

The judicial process opened in Barcelona is based on a complaint from the Prosecutor's Office and is based on the alleged tax fraud committed by the doctor - with the help of his wife and the Mexican businessman - which allowed him to hide income of 1.3 million euros from the Treasury between 2016 and 2018. The Prosecutor's Office maintains that all of them simulated the capital increase of the company that manages the medical center where the king emeritus has been caring for since 2017, in a modernist mansion (the Casa Alemany).

The alleged tax fraud in those three years amounts to more than 604,000 euros, according to the complaint.

One of the indications that, according to the Prosecutor's Office, allows us to affirm that the capital increase was simulated is the “investor profile”.

The company that allegedly carried out the financial operation is owned by Sanginés-Krause, a Mexican citizen with a British passport in whose name Sánchez issued "invoices corresponding to services rendered to the king emeritus, his client for many years."

That is the only reference to Juan Carlos I in the complaint, which was filed in May and admitted for processing by the head of the investigating court number 29 in Barcelona, ​​as reported on Monday

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The Prosecutor's Office accuses Sánchez of being the author of three crimes against public finances for not including, in his personal income tax return, income worth 1.3 million.

Both his wife and the Mexican tycoon are considered necessary cooperators, since his collaboration in the simulation of the capital increases was essential to be able to commit the fraud.

Sánchez and the woman have defended, in their statement as investigated before the judge, the goodness of the economic operations.

Sanginés-Krause still has to testify, according to judicial sources.

The complaint presents Sánchez as a "reputable medical specialist in aesthetic, preventive and anti-aging medicine."

He began to relate to Juan Carlos I more than two decades ago, when he worked at the Planas Clinic in Barcelona as a specialist in aesthetic and anti-aging medicine.

In 2016 he decided to open his own clinic, which he manages through a company.

Sánchez declared, insists the Prosecutor's Office, a "minimal part" of the income that he received between 2016 and 2018 and highlights that his remuneration comes from providing services to "a client with high economic capacity."

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