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On March 5, 2019, the German businesswoman Corinna Larsen communicated to the Zarzuela Palace in a highly relevant letter that Juan Carlos de Borbón asked her in 2014 to return the 65 million euros that had been donated "for love "two years earlier in an account of the Mirabaud Bank in Geneva (Switzerland).

The date of the alleged claim is key, since in June 2014 the King's abdication occurred and it was then that the monarch was no longer protected by the figure of inviolability. In the letter, unpublished until this Friday has been revealed by EL MUNDO, Larsen does not specify to the Casa del Rey in which month that request for the return of the funds took place; whether it was before or after the replacement on the throne. The acts of Juan Carlos de Borbón are only criminally prosecutable as of June 19, 2014 , when the abdication became effective.

The Prosecutor's Office of the Supreme Court, which keeps criminal investigation proceedings open, has already made it clear when assuming the instruction on emeritus that it is about "delimiting or ruling out the criminal relevance of the events that occur after June 2014, moment in which the emeritus King ceased to be protected by the inviolability that article 56.3 of the Spanish Constitution recognizes to the head of the State ".

Consulted sources of the investigation have maintained the constant suspicion that the father of Felipe VI used Larsen as an alleged figurehead by giving him as an "irrevocable" donation the 65 million euros that the King of Saudi Arabia Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz gave him in 2008 .

The reimbursement of 65 million

However, on the three occasions that the German has declared in Switzerland for these events, she buried the idea that the emeritus tried to disassociate himself from the funds through the donation. Corinna always denied in court that she had been used as a fiduciary by the King Emeritus.

The novel information that Larsen transmits to Felipe VI in the letter published by this newspaper shows that the King - always according to the version maintained by Juan Carlos I's ex-close friend - wanted to recover the funds in the year in which he lost inviolability. The unsuccessful attempt to reimburse those 65 million euros raises suspicions that this gift to her ex-lover constituted an act of money laundering opaque to the Spanish Treasury.

In fact, Corinna Larsen, like attorney Dante Canonica , manager Arturo Fasana and a representative of the Mirabaud entity are being investigated by the Geneva prosecutor Yves Bertossa in procedure P / 14783/2018 for money laundering.

The Geneva prosecutor investigates the donation to the King's former close friend linked to the tender for the Pharaonic work of the AVE to Mecca, known as the Bird of the Desert . However, the criminal investigation around the monarch is, a priori , very complex.

Keys to the investigation

In the first place, because in order to prove tax fraud, it would be necessary for active bank accounts to appear after his abdication or an opaque return on capital when the monarch did not enjoy inviolability. In other words, an unjustified increase in equity would have to be detected after the abdication.

In addition, the legal sources consulted explain that, to conclude that money laundering occurred by the emeritus, it is necessary to go one step further and demonstrate that there was an act after June 19, 2014 through which it was tried to conceal or cover up those funds of criminal origin under the guise of legality.

In contrast, other sources believe that if the origin of the illicit funds was protected by the mantle of inviolability, it is not possible to pursue "the effects of a crime" that did not exist due, precisely, to this absolute protection that the Constitution grants to the figure of the head of state.

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