The Spanish Treasury has opened a new investigation with the aim of determining whether, since his abdication in 2014, the emeritus king “has had an increase in assets not justified by the Treasury.”
The news is released this Wednesday by El Mundo, which ensures that, during the last year, Juan Carlos, now a resident of Abu Dhabi, has received several requests from the Spanish authorities for information on travel payments and other expenses associated with hunting in which he participated between 2014 and 2018.
According to the newspaper, which cites sources close to the investigation, the legal team that assists the emeritus king has been responding to requests for information, which also refer to “minor amounts he received as an individual,” such as “symbolic gifts given by businessmen ” that somehow will be close to them.
According to the same sources, although the amounts investigated today do not exceed 120,000 euros per year, an amount from which the Spanish Penal Code defines a crime against the Public Treasury, the fact that Juan Carlos is once again under investigation, a few months after being acquitted of all the crimes with which he was charged, the immediate consequence of which was his expulsion from the country.
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For El Mundo, anonymous sources accuse the Government of Pedro Sánchez of using the case to maintain a “new open front” against the emeritus king, who effectively announced this Tuesday that, contrary to expectations, there was no return. to Spain next week to attend a regatta named after him.
The father of King Felipe VI, who since 2020 and the financial scandal with the alleged receipt of improper commissions lives in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, invoked “strictly personal reasons” for the cancellation of the plans.
Source: Observadora
