“Juan Carlos I is a fraudster”

August 3, 2020, Juan Carlos I of Bourbon I was 82 years old, a few muddles to clear up and the best version of a map which he repeated a thousand times before the Royal Household made it known to the Spaniards: it was addressed to Felipe VI. his son and who left the throne in 2014, and where he explained that he was in exile far from Spain.

“In view of the public impact generated by certain past events in my private life” and “to help facilitate the exercise of your functions, the peace and quiet required by your high responsibility”, he wrote.

For days, the secret fate of the man who moved all of Spain after Franco’s death in 1975. become kingIt was the raw material of the most fruitful imagination.

Until it turns out that the King Emeritus, investigated in Switzerland and Spain by suspected illicit financial transactions Even if for the moment he is not in any case charged, he spends his days peacefully in a mansion on the island of Nurai in the Persian Gulf, safe from the care and care of the United Arab Emirates.

A year of ostracism

A year of ostracism has passed and, nevertheless, Juan Carlos continues to nurture scandal record: He received a visit from his daughters, the Infantes Elena and Cristina, who took the opportunity to be vaccinated against the coronavirus earlier than they would have been in Spain, and presented two regularizations to the Spanish Treasury, gesture by which, tacitly, he admitted to having evaded taxes.

The last chapter of the saga is the complaint of harassment, harassment and illegal tracking that her former “favorite friend” Corinna Larsen presented in London against Juan Carlos I.

Details of the complaint are well documented by the Argentine journalist Ernest Ekaizer, settled in Spain since the end of the 1970s and whose last book, The naked king. History of a fraud, dive into Bourbon maneuvers and plays unknown documents the conspiracy mounted by the King Emeritus and the investigations which have him in sight.

– Was it useful to remove Juan Carlos I from Spain?

-The presence of Juan Carlos I in Spain caused a lot of irritation in sectors not only Republican. Many felt betrayed by their conduct. It is true that scandals existed and his estrangement could not be silent, but what would have happened with him here every day? His departure did not calm the waters and I think he was wrong to choose the United Arab Emirates. Because they are very close to Saudi Arabia, where come the 100 million dollars that Juan Carlos received in 2008, donated to Corinna and then claimed.

-Which Spain has a coalition government in which United We Can, a party that promotes the end of the monarchy, is a real threat to the Crown?

-Not. United We Can is integrated into the system. They are not going to promote any campaign for a referendum against the monarchy. They are not a danger to the capitalist system, as we know it, nor to the parliamentary monarchy that has reigned in Spain since Franco’s death.

– What is your assessment of this year with the King Emeritus outside Spain?

– After a year of self-exile, I think its removal is linked to the cordon sanitaire put in place so that it does not splash and have devastating effects on the Royal House of His Majesty Felipe VI.

-How do you assess Felipe VI’s reaction to his father’s capricious behavior?

-On March 5, 2019, Corinna’s lawyers wrote a letter to Felipe VI where they told him, and the letter is reproduced in the book, that he was the second beneficiary of Lucum, a Panamanian foundation established in Switzerland, and also from a foundation of Juan Carlos’ cousin, Alvaro de Orleans, Zagadka, which in Russian means “enigma”. This foundation was created in Litchestein in 2003 and has paid nearly 9 million euros in aircraft rental for the King of Spain, being him the third beneficiary and his son, then Felipe de Borbón, the fourth beneficiary.

-What was Felipe VI’s reaction.

-The response of Felipe VI was to give the letter to his father and go to a notary to say that he was unaware of being a beneficiary of the Lucum and Zagadka foundations, that he in any case renounced any inheritance from Juan Carlos I and answer Corinna’s lawyers that he was not going to appoint any representative to negotiate with them. And he also tells us that he is renouncing the inheritance. A resignation which, according to the Spanish Civil Code, is not possible because Juan Carlos is alive. They put it all together and withdraw the endowment of 200 thousand euros that they give to the King Emeritus each year. All of this will suggest that the whole question of the monarchy is stuck.

-You, in your book, qualify the King Emeritus as a “fraudster” …

-In Spain, to avoid tax crime, you must submit a declaration and regularization. When you introduce regularization, you are not being persecuted by criminal means. But Juan Carlos is a fraudster. In his case, the 100 million Saudi Arabia gave him in 2008 is covered because he was sitting king and was inviolable. In 2014, he ceased to be king, he became king emeritus and was certified before the second chamber of the Supreme Court, which is the one which also judges parliamentarians. As it is measured, all acts from June 2014 can be investigated, both in the criminal and civil fields, and it must therefore respond to justice.

-Did he not know that by leaving the throne, his situation had changed?

-The paradox in his case, and this is what cynicism reveals, is that, when he ceases to be king, he continues to behave as if he were protected by inviolability. He behaves after 2014 with the same impunity with which he behaved when protected by inviolability. It’s dramatic. He didn’t mind destroying his own image or endangering the monarchy.

-Has the Royal House read your book? Has he contacted you?

– Have no doubt that they have read it. But I had no news. This is not a new topic for me. In 1996 I wrote a book, Vendetta, where I dedicate a chapter to Juan Carlos, who was then king. I investigated two bank accounts he had. I went to the Royal House, they received me, they confirmed 90 percent of what I had and I wrote this chapter.

-Is the monarchy healthy in Spain?

– It won’t be the same. Nothing will ever be the same. It will be a very weakened monarchy. A greatly diminished monarchy without any possibility of regaining the prestige it enjoyed with Juan Carlos I and which collapsed.

Madrid. Corresponding