Former magistrates and personalities have filed a complaint against the former King of Spain Juan Carlos I, 86, for tax crimes for which the Spanish justice system has renounced prosecuting him, one of them announced this Monday.
The complaint aims to demonstrate that “the tax regularizations of the tax returns from 2014 to 2018” of the former monarch “were not carried out in accordance with the law,” one of these complainants, José Antonio Martín Pallín, explained to public television TVE. former senior judge of the Supreme Court.
Pallín refers to the payment of more than 5 million euros to the Spanish tax authorities by King Emeritus Juan Carlos de Borbón in 2021, during two regularizations carried out while he was the subject of two investigations by the tax administration.
Donations from the Gulf monarchies
The prosecution concluded that the former sovereign had not declared to the Treasury several million euros of income that he had received in the form of donations from Gulf monarchies and businessmen, or even from private trips financed by a foundation. in Liechtenstein.
The prosecutor, however, had decided not to criminally prosecute the former monarch, who abdicated in 2014 in favor of his son Philip and has lived in exile since 2020 in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates.
But the plaintiffs believe that the prosecution’s exoneration is not enough and that it is up to the courts to decide whether the former monarch is now in good standing with the tax authorities.
Maximum fine
“In a democratic State, the last word always belongs to a court, in this case the Supreme Court,” Pallín argued, adding that among the plaintiffs were, among others, magistrates, philosophers and even journalists. He did not specify his number.
“We have no interest in prison sentences being imposed or anyone going to prison. What we ask is that the fine provided by law be applied to the maximum,” he added.
Source: BFM TV
