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The State Attorney General, Dolores Delgado, assured this Thursday in Palma that "there is still no definitive report" on the open investigations into the hidden fortune of Juan Carlos I.
"There are drafts, work is being done on it", Delgado has advanced, who has avoided taking the file of the case for granted, although he has advanced that "as soon as the writing is finalized" it will be transferred to public opinion so that it has " full account of that information", always after "the investigated" is notified.
The highest representative of the Spanish Public Prosecutor's Office and former Minister of Justice made these statements during an institutional event held in Palma.
At the headquarters of the Prosecutor's Office of the Balearic Islands and flanked by the superior Balearic prosecutor,
Bartomeu Barceló
, Delgado commemorated the 40th anniversary of the Organic Statute of the Public Prosecutor's Office, defending the "independence and autonomy" of prosecutors in their daily work.
When questioned about the file of the investigations opened by the Prosecutor's Office on the opaque funds of the King Emeritus and his environment, including the
Jersey tax haven
trust
, whose file is being prepared, the attorney general has not confirmed whether that shelving will take place nor if there is a foreseen term to do it.
The possible file
Delgado's reaction comes days after it emerged that the Supreme Court Prosecutor's Office does not notice any evidence of crime in the Emeritus' hidden fortune on the island of Jersey, a financial asset worth 10 million euros that was revealed by EL MUNDO .
The Chief Anti-Corruption Prosecutor,
Alejandro Luzón
, has recently drafted a decree to file these investigative proceedings, the draft of which was advanced on Monday by the Cope chain, in which he exonerates Don Juan Carlos of any type of criminal responsibility.
The document consists of about twenty pages and is still pending approval by the State Attorney General.
It maintains that "there are no indications that allow a criminal charge against SMD Juan Carlos de Borbón y Borbón", for which it agrees to file this investigation.
This is one of the three proceedings that the Public Ministry maintains open against the former head of state.
In that previous report, Luzón details that Juan Carlos I had a
trust
in the Channel Islands called
The JRM 2004 Trust
, which was established almost two decades ago in Jersey.
This financial vehicle was nurtured, the Prosecutor's Office abounds, from funds from two other
trusts
that had previously been created in 1995 and 1997 by
Manuel Prado and Colón de Carvajal
, personal assistant to Don Juan Carlos for many years.
The facts
The Sala prosecutor argues that the origin of the money came from donations made to Don Juan Carlos in the 1950s and 1970s to support the support of the then prince.
"The purpose of both
trusts
was to support the then King Don Juan Carlos I in the event that he was deposed by an unconstitutional coup or a similar situation and they had him as the sole beneficiary," the decree states.
However, in 2004, the chief anti-corruption prosecutor points out, "the political situation in Spain was stable, the heir, today King Felipe VI, had just married, the monarchy enjoyed prestige and public knowledge of the existence of
trust
, with the presence in them of Manuel Prado, already condemned by the National High Court, would have required embarrassing explanations".
Hence, the monarch decided to "liquidate the
trusts
and transfer the funds to
Joaquín Romero Maura
".
The latter designated as beneficiaries his wife and the British Refugee Council, "a charitable organization founded in 1951 and dedicated to helping refugees and people who, fleeing from zones of war, conflict, violence or persecution, seek asylum in the United Kingdom" .
The Prosecutor's Conclusions
The Luzón prosecutor maintains that this financial vehicle had "very low activity" and that the recent dispositions of money do not constitute in any case a crime against the Public Treasury due to its amount.
Likewise, it emphasizes that it has not been proven that these outflows of funds were carried out by Don Juan Carlos himself.
The Public Ministry affirms that the monarch "at no time has he had the status of beneficiary of the
trust
nor is there evidence that he has received any amount from his accounts."
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