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The German businesswoman Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, former lover of Carlos I, the former Spanish king who fled to Abu Dhabi, has been investigated by the Swiss prosecutor’s office on suspicion of money laundering. According to the indictment, the German businesswoman was able to purchase an English estate with the associated palace in her son’s name for £ 6 million through a Panamanian trustee. She could buy the farm with the money she received as a gift from the former King of Spain.
As Origo reported, on March 3, 2020, the Swiss-language French newspaper La Tribune de Genève wrote for the first time that an investigation into the June 2014 resignation was underway. Károly I. János against (ex) King of Spain. According to the newspaper, the investigation began in 2018 and it is suspected that the former president died in January 2015. Abdullah of the King of Saudi Arabia He was allowed to accept a bribe of $ 100 million for a Spanish consortium to win the construction of the second section of a high-speed rail line connecting Medina and Mecca.
Under suspicion, he could hide the bribe in a secret Swiss account, and from this money his dual German-Danish lover could be obtained. Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein also a businesswoman who he has broken up with since then. In Switzerland, the investigation could have started after an interview with the (ex) lover, allegedly in revenge, by the Spanish press two years ago. guessing the Saudi thread of the case, he declared that he had received money from the king.
Then, in June 2020, the Spanish Supreme Court also launched an investigation against Károly János, which is why the former ruler on August 3, under unclear circumstances, he left for Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates.
The most widely read newspaper in Spanish, according to a report by El País on August 24 On suspicion of money laundering, the Swiss prosecution has also recently launched an investigation into Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, who lives in Germany.
The case is based on a suspicious real estate case. Ms Sayn-Wittgenstein acquired the Chyknell Hall Estate in Shropshire in the west of England in 2015, 3 years later He received as a gift 65 million euros from János Károly, who was still ruling at that time. According to the woman He received such a generous gift from the king because he took care of him.
The German businesswoman testified to Swiss prosecutors that she had paid £ 6 million (the current exchange rate of £ 2.37 billion) for the property and spent roughly the same amount to renovate the buildings on it. The transaction was carried out through a Panama-registered trustee, whose beneficiary was the then 13-year-old son of Ms. Sayn-Wittgenstein.
The Chyknell Hall Estate sits on 81 acres and features a palace built in 1814 and expanded in 1858, with 11 bedrooms, a library and pool, and a cricket court.
The farm has changed hands three times in the last 70 years.
And in an interview with the BBC, the German businesswoman spoke about it During an argument in 2014, János Károly returned the money he received as a gift in 2012. According to Sayn-Wittgenstein, the former king’s ire was sparked by the fact that he made it clear that he did not want to continue their relationship.
However, the money stayed with the woman, as demonstrated by János Károly in August 2018, her Swiss lawyer, Dante CanonicaFrench letter to him telling him that his 2012 gift was “irrevocable”. The letter also says that the former king did not get anything in exchange for the money, but
He didn’t even ask his ex-lover to return the gift. This letter was later published in the Spanish press.
Both John Charles and Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein flatly deny that the 65 million euros that were used to give each other had anything to do with the bribes allegedly provided by the former king of Saudi Arabia, and claim that it is not about hiding anything in a secret account of a Swiss bank.
However, this is contradicted by the fact that the current phase of the investigation into the former ruler in Switzerland and Spain aims to determine whether Károly János received the bribe before or after his resignation in June 2014. This is significant because the king is inviolable, that is, if he accepts the money before resigning, then (absurd as it may be), he cannot be punished, because as king he could do practically anything.
In early August, János Károly I fled his own country after it became increasingly difficult to keep the investigation out of him. Not even his own wife is still in exile, the deceived queen practically rejected her husband, as did her successor, who feared her power, her own son.
The case of the former ruler represents a threat to the entire monarchy,
that’s why the new ruler separated from his father, SAW. Philippines – and could easily have been a beneficiary of his father’s affairs. Because of this, he had to give up personal inheritance. The scandals of Carlos I and the royal family completely shattered the popularity of the monarchy. Even before the corruption case in Saudi Arabia came to light, the proportion who would abolish the kingdom was close to 50 percent.
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