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The German businesswoman Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein is again under the magnifying glass of the judge investigating the retired Police Commissioner José Manuel Villarejo. The magistrate Manuel García Castellón has reopened the piece related to the one that was friend of King Emeritus after locating new recordings made by the former police officer, coinciding with the investigation opened by a Swiss prosecutor from Villarejo audio files, as confirmed by This daily sources knowledgeable about the case.

The so-called Carol piece, related to the assignment that this businesswoman made to the commissioner to advise the Goldsmith British family before an investigation opened by the Spanish Treasury for the purchase of a property in Ronda (Málaga), was opened by Judge Diego de Egea , García Castellón's predecessor in the instruction of the so-called Villarejo case , on July 20, 2018, based on a report sent by the Internal Affairs Unit of the Police under the title Facts Relating to Basic State Institutions and the recording of a conversation maintained between Corinna, businessman Juan Villalonga and Villarejo in 2015.

Judge De Egea provisionally filed the piece two months later - on September 7, 2018 -, without any diligence, with the favorable report of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office and with only the testimony of the German businesswoman. A year later, the current instructor of the case decided to reopen the investigation, although not at the request of the Prosecutor, as confirmed by legal sources. In this piece, commissioners Villarejo were charged with crimes of discovery and disclosure of secrets and bribery.

The Central Court of Instruction number 6 investigates new recordings in which the German businesswoman intervenes and that could motivate the statement of Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein before magistrate García Castellón for possible crimes committed during her friendship with King Emeritus, as specified other sources familiar with the case. Moreover, the new findings discovered among the documentation and recordings intervened in Villarejo provide, according to the same sources, more precise data to initiate a criminal investigation that could affect, even, third parties in addition to Corinna. That said, the businessman Villalonga aims to be another of those cited to testify based on the testimony provided by the German businesswoman, according to the sources consulted.

This piece also investigated "some acts that Juan Carlos I had allegedly carried out, being King of Spain approximately between 2009 and 2012," as stated in the provisional dismissal order, and which Corinna referred to in the conversation. maintained with Villalonga and the commissioner.

De Egea filed this investigation, with the approval of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, arguing that “the only basis for the facts imputed to Juan Carlos I is the account of the same made by Corinna, naturally deduced from the development of the relationship of friendship Between both".

In that conversation, Corinna «refers to a piece of land in Morocco , the payment of commissions [referring to the construction of the Mecca-Medina AVE ] and bank accounts of which the King would be the real owner in Switzerland either under assumed names, either under the formal ownership of a relative ». This was reported by the Prosecutor in a statement dated the same day that De Egea issued the file.

Precisely, as for the alleged payment of these commissions, Anticorruption took a statement yesterday from Corinna in London in the framework of the investigation proceedings that this Prosecutor opened a year ago about alleged corruption crimes in international economic and bribery transactions that could be committed by Spanish citizens and foreigners in the framework of the construction of the mentioned railway line.

The German businesswoman broke away yesterday from any type of agreement made in relation to the construction of the AVE and warned, through her lawyer Robin Rathmell , that “any attempt by people in Spain who seek to use it as a scapegoat to downplay Your own wrongdoing will face a quick legal response »on your part.

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