IT IS ALREADY more than a year since the Prosecutor's Office of the Supreme Court assumed the first of the three investigations that affect Juan Carlos I in order to define or rule out whether the current King Emeritus has been able to incur any crime of an economic nature.

The time that has elapsed, without having been accused of anything or being immersed in any legal case to date, has led irresponsible spokespersons for the radical left or pro-independence parties to throw stones at

Justice and to denounce without foundation the attempt to envelop the former head of state with a cloak of impunity. Nothing more far from reality. EL MUNDO has had access to the rogatory commission, which we exclusively advance today, transferred in February by the Lieutenant Prosecutor of the High Court to the Swiss Federal Office of Justice. The document, of extraordinary interest and public relevance, is forceful and maintains that for the first time the Public Ministry has elements to suspect that the hidden fortune of Don Juan Carlos that has seen the light in recent years would have been amassed through "commissions and other benefits of a similar nature by virtue of their intermediation in international business affairs ”.

Don Juan Carlos, like any citizen, has the right to have his presumption of innocence respected, but it is true that Justice has to clarify as soon as possible whether whoever was head of State for almost forty years crossed the limits of legality. The fiscal regularizations carried out in recent months by the King Emeritus show that his conduct was far from the exemplary required of someone who embodied an institution like the Crown for so many decades. However, the Prosecutor's Office cannot extend the proceedings opened against the monarch sine die, turning them into a general case against Juan Carlos I.

Through this rogatory commission, the prosecutor asks the Swiss authorities for information on all the Swiss accounts of the Zagatka Foundation between 2016 and 2019. Presided over by a cousin of the King Emeritus, Álvaro de Orleáns, it is one of the two foundations in the eye of the hurricane, in this case because it paid between 2009 and 2018 eight million euros in private flights to the former monarch. The Prosecutor's Office, focused on determining the origin of the funds so far hidden from the Treasury, warns of the possible commission of up to four crimes: bribery, money laundering, tax crime and influence peddling.

What is clear is that Justice is acting and it is to be welcomed.

Therefore, a rigorous investigation is required to the end, which will also dismantle the anti-establishment populists immersed in their crusade against the Crown to overthrow our constitutional system.

Don Juan Carlos is not above the Law, but neither is he below the law.

And those who have already convicted him are portrayed when the same Prosecutor's Office in a year has not found evidence of a crime so solid as to be able to file a complaint against the King before the Supreme Court.

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