He was said to have fled to Portugal or the Dominican Republic. This time, the Spanish newspaper ABC believes it knows where the former king of Spain Juan Carlos I is, who went into exile in the face of suspicion of corruption that weighed on him. He would be in Abu Dhabi, where he arrived at the end of a well-prepared trip, says the daily.
Since the announcement of his departure from Spain, the Spanish press has so far sought unsuccessfully to find out where the former sovereign is located and the media are speculating to locate him. The Royal Palace has refused to reveal his new place of residence and is content to say that it will be Juan Carlos himself who will announce his whereabouts, if he sees fit.
Stayed in a palace?
According to the ABC article, a pro-monarchy newspaper, the 82-year-old ex-king left from Vigo, Galicia in northeastern Spain on Monday morning in a private jet, accompanied by an adviser and four bodyguards. He allegedly landed seven hours later at a business airport in the capital of the United Arab Emirates.
The flight plan of the private jet, which ABC claims to have found, indicates Paris-Abu Dhabi in order to ensure the discretion of the trip. The plane would have taken off from Paris on Sunday and would have made a stopover in Vigo in order to recover the former sovereign there. The newspaper reports that Juan Carlos stayed at the Emirates Palace hotel, a luxury resort sheltered from the paparazzi, and which he would not have left because of the high temperatures, but the hotel denied. “We don't have a VIP client,” a manager at Emirates Palace told AFP.
Juan Carlos has maintained very good relations with the Gulf monarchies, and according to press reports, Swiss justice is considering a payment of $ 100 million from Saudi King Abdullah to one of his accounts in Geneva . Pursued by rumors of corruption born from the statements of a former mistress, the ex-monarch who had abdicated in 2014, announced his departure on Monday in order to facilitate his son Felipe VI "the exercise of his functions".
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