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The Swiss Public Prosecutor's Office has addressed the National Court to demand the documentation related to the investigation opened for the alleged payment of illegal commissions in the AVE works to Mecca (Saudi Arabia) following the publication of a recording by Commissioner José Manuel Villarejo with the German businesswoman of Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein that took place in London in 2015.

In that conversation, the one who was a close friend of King Juan Carlos referred to the acquisition "of a land in Morocco, to the payment of commissions (referring to the construction of the Mecca-Medina AVE" and "bank accounts of which the King would be a real owner in Switzerland either under assumed names, or under the formal ownership of a relative. "

The Geneva Prosecutor's Office, which is currently investigating money laundering of the alleged headmen of the emeritus monarch - the broker Arturo Fasana and the lawyer Dante Canónica -, wants to incorporate such documentation into his secret proceedings.

According to sources of the investigation to EL MUNDO, the Swiss country has requested - via rogatory commission - to magistrate Manuel García Castellón to provide them with documentation related to the payment of these alleged bites linked to the award of the AVE in Saudi Arabia.

First, the head of the Central Court of Instruction number 6 has transferred to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor to report on the suitability of completing said formal request for judicial assistance by the Swiss authorities.

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From the department headed by the chief prosecutor Alejandro Luzón, it has been answered that these investigations are not prosecuted, since they are being investigated by the Prosecutor Anticorrupción Luis Pastor since October 2018 in an investigation proceeding. Therefore, the position of the Prosecutor's Office is that in the event that Switzerland wishes to access such material, it must submit its request to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office itself.

According to the sources consulted, it is highly probable that, based on this reason, the judge himself will refuse in the next few days to complete the aforementioned rogatory commission issued by Switzerland.

According to the businesswoman Corinna, a total of 80 million were paid as payment of the illegal commissions to the wife of a Saudi businessman, who in turn would have given half to a Spanish businessman who allegedly gave it "all or part" to the monarch emeritus

Specifically, in that conversation with the commissioner linked to the sewers of the State referred to the construction of the high-speed railway line, the so-called desert AVE , which joins the cities of Medina and Mecca, and whose phase II was awarded in October 2011 to a business consortium composed of 12 Spanish companies together with two Saudis.

Anticorruption stressed upon knowing the terms of that conversation that the indications against Juan Carlos I were "extraordinarily weak" because they consisted of the "mere reference made by a person who does not appear directly or indirectly involved in the payments and who does not state the reason for his knowledge".

On the other hand, as this newspaper reported, Judge García Castellón has on the table some new recordings in which the German businesswoman intervenes for possible crimes committed during her friendship with King Emeritus, tapes that have reactivated the Carol , which was filed by Judge Diego de Egea.

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