A charitable foundation of today King Carlos III, investigated for alleged corruption

He has not yet completed his first 100 days on the throne, but Carlos III is already facing the first major scandal of his reign that hits him very directly.

Because, as the BBC, the influential British public broadcaster, announced this Sunday,

, one of the most important foundations that the current king relied on as Prince of Wales to be able to carry out his enormous philanthropic work.

Specifically, this organization, created in 1986, was dedicated to the principles of traditional urban design and architecture, an issue that the eldest son of Elizabeth II has always been passionate about and which earned him criticism from experts who considered that he was taking advantage of his position to put their noses where they shouldn't and influence the rulers of the day.

In any case, the scandal has nothing to do with Carlos' architectural tastes.

What the Prosecutor's Office is investigating is a police report on alleged promises that those responsible for the foundation would have made in the past to prominent figures to

.

The case goes back a long way.

In September of last year,

newspaper published exclusively that Michael Fawcett, executive director of the Prince's Foundation, had mediated so that the Saudi magnate Mahfuz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfuz was distinguished as

in exchange for the generous donation of 1.7 million euros that he made before receiving his award.

Most of it appears to have been spent on renovating two of the properties managed in Scotland by the prince's foundation.

The Sunday newspaper added that the Saudi had paid "tens of thousands of pounds" to people close to the Prince of Wales before reaching out to Fawcett to help him get the medal.

Mahfuz, who was presented with the decoration by Prince Charles in a private ceremony at Buckingham Palace in November 2016, denied the accusations.

And spokesmen for Carlos denied that he was aware of these transactions on his behalf.

However, the scandal was such that

as CEO of the Prince's Foundation.

And that left the current king devastated.

Because Fawcett had been his

of him for 40 years.

His had been a meteoric career always at the service of the heir, from his first position as a valet, in which, among other things, he was in charge of putting the toothpaste on his boss's brush, according to the British media. in his day.

Carlos and Fawcett's relationship became increasingly close and intense.

And the prince marveled at the skills of his adviser in obtaining sponsors and benefactors for his many foundations.

a firewall

Fawcett's resignation served as a firewall so that the matter did not splash the heir further.

But the matter did not stop there.

The Republic association, which advocates for the republic in the United Kingdom, filed

.

And the London Metropolitan Police would have confirmed that it has transferred its conclusions to the Tax Office, which must decide shortly whether to take the case to court.

According to

, prosecutors are expected to decide before Christmas whether or not to bring charges.

As is obvious,

, among other things because he is inviolable.

The matter, in addition to nothing aesthetic, brings other scandals of a similar nature to the fore, such as the one that plagued him this past August, just a month before the death of his mother, when it was published that in 2013 the Prince of Wales's The Charitable Fund (Prince of Wales Charitable Foundation) received a donation of 1.19 million euros from

and

, both half-brothers of Osama bin Laden, the dejected al Qaeda leader responsible for orchestrating 9/11. S.

Carlos would have negotiated the payment of the sum after a private meeting at Clarence House with Bakr bin Laden, against the advice of some palatine advisers.

And also last summer it was learned that the heir accepted a million euros contained in a suitcase from the

, among other cash donations that the former Arab prime minister made for the current British king's charities .

According to

, between 2011 and 2015 Carlos received three lots of cash worth three million euros from Al Thani, who was Prime Minister of Qatar between 2007 and 2013 and Foreign Minister from 1992 to 2013.

There has not been any information that denies that all the amounts were directed, in effect, to the philanthropic works sponsored by the son of Isabel II.

Come on, we are not facing a case similar to that of the alleged bags of money from Saudi Arabia with which Corinna Larsen says that

arrived as a child with new shoes.

But they do not seem appropriate practices in any case for whoever sits on the throne of Saint George today.

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