The Supreme Court refuses to reopen the case against the king emeritus for tax crimes
The Spanish Supreme Court refused to open a criminal proceeding against the emeritus king Juan Carlos I in relation to the origin and management of His inheritance hidden abroad. The criminal chamber rejected a complaint promoted by a group of retired magistrates, also the anti -corruption ministries and representatives of culture, who have questioned themselves The previous research archive made by the prosecutor’s office. The judges believe that there are no new legal reasons that justify the reopening of the case.
In its resolution, the high court completely supports the criteria of the anti -corruption prosecutor, who In 2022 he decided to close the file without presenting positions. The Supreme reproaches the denunciations a “partial and interested reading” of that file and considers that they have not contributed to substantial elements that invalidate the tax criteria. “Nothing has changed in these three years to justify a criminal process,” says the sentence.
According to the tax ministry, which has investigated Juan Carlos i for several years After his abdication in 2014Funds not patients accumulated abroad, including over 65 million euros by Saudi Arabia, travel paid by entrepreneurs and opaque structures such as an “confidence” in Jersey, could not be criminally persecuted for three reasons: The inviolability that protected the then head of stateThe prescription of many facts and, finally, the regularizations of the voluntary taxes made by the monarch once opened the investigation.
The complaint lacks a legal basis, according to the Supreme
The new complaint tried to refute that last point, considering that treasure payments They should not automatically exempt criminal liability. However, the Supreme concludes that this interpretation does not justify again to investigate from scratch. According to the judges, the drivers of the complaint “do not deny the reasons for the file”, They ask that the research is repeatedThe documents already evaluated are revised and prescribes periods of prescription, which the Court refuses due to the lack of a legal basis.
With this decision, the Supreme Court Closes the criminal against Juan Carlos, againSupporting the thesis according to which, at least in the current terms, the conditions to sit the king emeritus on the bench are not provided.
