The Supreme Court Prosecutor’s Office has filed the three judicial investigations related to Juan Carlos I after almost two years, despite realizing a wide range of tax irregularities. Among the proceedings filed and signed by the State Attorney General, Dolores Delgadoand the Chief Anti-Corruption Prosecutor, Alexander Luzonare the alleged collection of illegal commissions by being an intermediary for the works of the AVE to Mecca, the concealment of funds in tax havens and the use of the figurehead of the Mexican businessman Allen Sanginés-Krause.
In addition, all those people who make up The State Attorney General’s Office considers that it is very difficult to prosecute alleged irregularities that have a relationship with the king emeritus. Therefore, the absence of evidence, such as the tax regularization presented in December 2020 and February 2021, stops the Supreme Court can act against the proceedings of the former head of state. (See the official press release)
This decision ends two years of investigation into the king emeritus
The Anticorruption Prosecutor and the Supreme Court spent almost years investigating indications of fiscal crimes due to international and national businesses in which Juan Carlos I participated directly or indirectly. Therefore, all the proceedings and irregularities committed by the king emeritus cannot be guarded, since they were committed before 2014, when he was shielded by the article 56.3 of the Spanish Constitution.
As well, the donations of money to some identities, and that were demonstrated, they have been left without any penal effect. For example, the Mexican businessman, Allen Sanginés-Krauserecognized the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor in September 2020, who had given nearly a million euros to King Juan Carlos first between 2016 and 2018.
Nevertheless, this donation was not declared until December 2020 by the former Spanish head of state, to benefit from the article 305.4 of the Penal Code which indicates that “The regularization of the tax situation will prevent the prosecution of previously committed irregularities”. Only, He has a legal procedure to resolve, since Corinna Larsen sued him for alleged harassment by the National Intelligence Center, directed by the previous monarch.