The Spanish ambassador in the Emirates avoids receiving Juan Carlos I and forces him to present requests for procedures at the Embassy

• Investigation The King Emeritus transfers his tax residence to the United Arab Emirates and remains off the Treasury radar

The Spanish ambassador in the United Arab Emirates,

, avoids

and forces him to file a request for any procedure at the Embassy.

This is revealed by the former Commissioner for the Spain Brand in the previous government and friend of the King Emeritus,

, who signs an article in this newspaper about, in his opinion, mistreatment of the former head of state.

According to his version, the King Emeritus does not have the facilities to process personal documentation.

When asked by EL MUNDO about his refusal to receive Juan Carlos I in the Emirate country,

.

According to Espinosa de los Monteros's version, he does not even greet the previous Monarch if they coincide in any act.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs specifies for his part to this newspaper that

from the head of the Department,

, to the ambassador in the Emirates not to receive or have dealings with Juan Carlos I.

The King Emeritus has resided in Abu Dhabi since August 2020 and is currently processing before the Spanish Tax Agency to formalize his change of tax residence, which is within his reach by meeting the requirements of spending more than 183 days a year outside the State.

He takes this step, according to this newspaper, after paying 5 million to the Treasury in two regularizations for an undeclared fortune and for which he has not provided any explanation until now.

With his change of residence, he leaves the radar of the Tax Agency.

Iñigo de Palacio.M.

EXTERNAL

For his part, Ambassador De Palacio is a veteran of the diplomatic career.

He joined in 1983 and has been ambassador to Serbia and Chile after having served in several other Spanish diplomatic legations.

In the last decade, he has worked mainly in the private sector

being president

for most of this stage.

Shortly after arriving at the Ministry in 2021, Albares reinstated De Palacio and, in one of his first appointments, appointed him the new ambassador to the Emirates in September, when Juan Carlos I had been in the country for a year.

It is currently one of the most sensitive embassies for the Government from a political point of view, due to the presence of King Emeritus, and, above all, economically, due to the growing investment weight of the Emirates in Spain.

Espinosa de los Monteros criticizes this treatment by the ambassador and the Government of Juan Carlos I in contrast to the treatment of Juan Carlos I by the Emirati head of state, Sheikh

This emir makes his planes available to the previous head of state for trips like the one this Thursday to Paris.

The Spanish-Peruvian Nobel Prize winner

will become the first writer in Spanish to enter the French Academy and has invited Juan Carlos I and Infanta Cristina, among others, to the event, who accompanies her father at this event .

Also in trips of Juan Carlos I to other countries of the Persian Gulf for, for example, Formula I competitions, or the one that he undertook to Sanxenxo last year, the former head of state had one of Sheikh Mohamed's fleet devices .

He has maintained with Juan Carlos I the friendship that his father,

, professed to him .

He was head of the State of the Emirates until last May when he passed away.

His death has not changed one iota the country's reception of King Emeritus.

His son already showed affection when, knowing that Juan Carlos I had symptoms of Covid, he sent him a helicopter to be transferred to a hospital, according to this newspaper.

It was in November 2021 and it was the emir's reaction to Juan Carlos I's call to cancel a lunch with him when he presented symptoms of the disease, from which he later recovered in the hospital.

The King Emeritus resides on an island and the fastest and most efficient way to put himself in the hands of the toilets is by air, which MBZ provided without Juan Carlos I requesting it.

The King Emeritus has not returned to Spain since last May when, in addition to the aforementioned trip to Sanxenxo, he went to the Palacio de la Zarzuela where his son

made him see the discomfort that surrounds his visits to the Crown. country.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

Know more