Ex-Spanish king's former lover got $77 million gift via Panama
Danish-born businesswoman Corinna Larsen the former lover of the Emeritus King Juan Carlos of Spain bought a $7.8 million mansion in the United Kingdom in 2015, through the Panama based Lucum Foundation three years after receiving a $77 million gift from the king according to the Swiss prosecutor's office which is investigating the purchase
Larsen insists that the transfer million that the king
allegedly made him from the account in Switzerland of the Lucum Foundation,
based in Panama, was a gift for her sentimental relationship 'in gratitude for
having taken care of him during his worst moments and for the esteem he had for
her son.and attributes to a 'tantrum that the monarch asked for the return of
that money years later,. 'In 2014, he made desperate attempts to get me back
with him, said the businesswoman in a BBC interview last Thursday.
Larsen is under
investigation for an alleged money laundering, and the chief prosecutor in
Geneva is investigating this acquisition and the "opaque structure"
she used for the operation, produced after receiving the gift from the former
monarch,
The lover of Juan Carlos I between 2004 and 2009 claimed to
have received a $77 million fortune from
the monarch in 2012
The businesswoman is one of the three people investigated in
Switzerland for a transfer of $100 million Juan Carlos received in 2008 from
the then King Abdullah of Arabia.
The prosecution suspects that the money she received served
to hide the remaining money he had received from the Saudi monarch.
Larsen and Juan Carlos I deny that she acted as a frontman.
Although the 82-year-old king emeritus is not formally
investigated, the revelations about his fortune are being studied by the
Spanish and Swiss justice and prompted him to leave the country on August 3
heading for the United Arab Emirates.
From his elf-imposed exile and agreed with his heir Felipe
VI, the king, who abdicated in 2014, assures that he will continue to be at the
disposal of Spanish justice.
In the BBC interview
she describes as 'extraordinary that '40 years of the modus operandi of
a family business, in reference to the Royal House, ended up focusing on her Panama link despite the fact that 'there
will be hundreds of accounts in other jurisdictions.
'He realized that I was not coming back and was completely
furious. He asked me to give him everything back. I think it was just a
tantrum, According to Larsen Juan Carlos
I 'has confirmed in the Swiss
investigation that he never actually asked for the money back and that I never
had the money in his name.
The Swiss prosecutor believes that the 65 million euros that
were transferred from the Lucum Foundation account to another of Corinna
Larssen in 2012 came from the 100 million that Juan Carlos I received from a
commission for the construction of the AVE to Mecca in 2008 .
The Swiss prosecutor
charges Larsen, lawyer Dante Canónica,
and an office with 'aggravated
money laundering.
King Juan Carlos I has been in the United Arab Emirates
since August 3, according to the Royal Household in a statement after two weeks
of silence.
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