• Monarchy. Juan Carlos I communicates to Felipe VI his decision to leave Spain
  • Justice: the keys to the case

The historical decision of King Juan Carlos I to leave Spain after coming out into the public light that he amassed a fortune in Switzerland hidden from the treasury will have no legal consequences, according to different legal sources consulted by EL MUNDO .

This same Monday the lawyer of the Emeritus, Javier Sánchez-Junco , has issued a statement where he assures that the Monarch "has given him instructions" to make it public that after "his decision to move outside of Spain at this time remains in any case to disposition of the Fiscal Ministry for any procedure or action that it considers opportune ".

With this message, the legal services of the Monarch - which is not currently charged in any judicial proceeding - want to convey that in no case when leaving the country at the moment does it constitute an act to try to evade possible action by the Spanish Justice . At the moment, the Emeritus also has no legal proceedings in Switzerland, where his alleged front men, lawyer Dante Canonica and manager Arturo Fassana and his former "dear friend" Corinna Larsen are being investigated for money laundering .

Legal sources consulted by EL MUNDO maintain that the Swiss country lacks powers to investigate the former Head of State for various reasons. Among them, because the possible fiscal crime would not have been committed in Switzerland and also because if it were prosecutable by the prosecutor Yves Bertossa, the king as former head of state enjoyed inviolability until June 19, 2014.

On June 5, the State Attorney General, Dolores Delgado, issued a decree designating for this investigation the Prosecutor of the Supreme Court of the specialty of Economic Crimes, Juan Ignacio Campos. This Chamber prosecutor, assisted by three other High Court prosecutors, are in charge of investigating Juan Carlos de Borbón. However, there is an important nuance.

Due diligence of the Prosecutor's Office is pre-procedural, so there is no formal investigation in Spain against Juan Carlos de Borbón, heard before the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court.

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