The former King of Spain, Juan Carlos, paid more than 4 million euros to the state treasury, in an attempt to avoid criminal proceedings against him, as charges of tax evasion are being pursued as well as receiving bribes from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Lawyer Javier Sanchez Junco said that his client, the former king, voluntarily paid about 4.4 million euros, "including interest on arrears and additional fees."
According to a report in the conservative newspaper El Mondo, the king borrowed money from close friends, and this is the second payment made by Juan Carlos to the treasury within 3 months.
It is noteworthy that the former King of Spain (82 years) moved to the UAE last year after suspicions about the sources of his mysterious wealth, which damaged the reputation of the Spanish monarchy.
Earlier, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said that he joined the Spaniards "rejecting" what he described as the "uncivil behavior" of Juan Carlos, and expressed his rejection of the previous king's late payment of tax dues on him.
However, he believed that "an institution should not be judged" but rather "the behavior of one person," indicating that the royal institution does not bear responsibility for this behavior.
The judiciary in Switzerland and Spain is investigating the previous king's receipt of $ 100 million in a secret account in Switzerland in 2008.
Spanish newspapers frequently feature details of the mysterious management of the funds believed to have been paid by Saudi Arabia to Carlos, who shied away from public life last year after abdicating the throne in June 2014 in favor of his son Felipe VI.
The investigation was opened in September 2018, after the publication of records attributed to a woman who had a relationship with Juan Carlos, in which she confirmed that he received a commission while awarding Spanish companies a huge contract to construct a high-speed train line in Saudi Arabia.
Doubts about mysterious wealth tarnished the legacy of the monarch, who had been hugely popular for decades, and was the main character in the country's democratic "transformation" after Franco's dictatorship (1939-1975).
The current King Felipe VI announced that he had abandoned his father's inheritance and had withdrawn from him his annual allowances of 200,000 euros, after he was embarrassed about his name as one of the beneficiaries of transferring Saudi funds to the institution that manages the account in Switzerland.