Spanish justice to close investigation of Juan Carlos, advances “El Confidencial”

Spanish justice will close the investigation to the emeritus king, Juan Carlos, related to alleged tax crimes and money laundering, according to judicial sources cited by the newspaper “El Confidencial”. The online diary writes this Friday that in the year in which he is suspected of having committed those crimes, the monarch had not yet abdicated, thus enjoying the constitutional prerogative of inviolability, which absolves him of any criminal responsibility.

Among the documentation analyzed by the Public Prosecutor’s Office is the one sent by the Swiss authorities, including the minutes of a private agreement dated March 2011. According to this documentation, Juan Carlos was involved in the management of an offshore through which he hid 64.8 millions of euros. The former monarch is suspected of having diverted this amount to the king of Saudi Arabia.

Juan Carlos will also have charged commissions for the construction of the AVE railway line (the Spanish high-speed network) between the Saudi cities of Medina and Mecca.

In August, the emeritus king was partly uncertain until the Spanish Royal House put an end to the uncertainties, clarifying that Juan Carlos was in the United Arab Emirates, where he had moved on the 3rd of that month.

The former king’s whereabouts were unknown since that day, the Zarzuela Palace issued a statement indicating that it supported Juan Carlos’ decision to leave Spain to take up residence in another country. On that occasion, Casa Real added that the decision was made in view of the public repercussion of “some past events” of Juan Carlos’ private life and to facilitate his son and successor, Filipe VI, the tranquility and tranquility he needs for the exercise of their functions.