The Tax Agency is investigating King Juan Carlos for the hunts to which he was invited after his abdication in 2014, for which he has been required to justify who paid for the flights and the expenses derived from the hunts he attended, according to El Mundo. .
The Department of Financial and Tax Inspection of the Treasury has sent Juan Carlos I several requests for information during the last year, some of them recently, adds the newspaper.
He asks him to prove the origin of the funds with which the flights and the rest of the expenses derived from the hunting days to which he was invited between 2014 and 2018, that is, when he was no longer head of state and therefore he was not protected by the inviolability that came with his office.
The Treasury still maintains an administrative tax inspection against the king emeritus despite the voluntary regularizations carried out by Juan Carlos I to avoid the commission of tax crimes for the trips paid for by the Zagatka Foundation and which motivated the filing of the proceedings opened by the Prosecutor of the Supreme Court.
The operations claimed by the treasury were not regularized by Juan Carlos I and the Tax Agency seeks to know if the king emeritus had an unjustified increase in assets before the treasury since he abdicated as king.
Within the framework of this procedure, justification of the expenses of the monterías and hunts is not only required, but also of some smaller gifts that he received in a private capacity, some of them symbolic gifts made by businessmen close to Juan Carlos I.
The legal advisers of Juan Carlos I have been responding periodically to all the requirements made by the Treasury Inspectorate, whose amounts have not increased so far to amounts that exceed the threshold of 120,000 euros per year as a whole from which the crime is typified. against the Public Treasury in the Penal Code.
At the beginning of March, the Supreme Court Prosecutor’s Office decreed the filing of the investigative proceedings that it kept open on the fortune of King Emeritus Juan Carlos I. They are those referring to the alleged illegal commissions for the award of the AVE to Mecca, those of the alleged use of black cards paid for by a Mexican businessman, and the one related to the fortune that he would have hidden on the island of Jersey.
Juan Carlos I confirmed this Wednesday that he will not return to Sanxenxo (Pontevedra) this week to attend the sailing regattas that will be held in the coming days, alleging “strictly private reasons”, as reported by his surroundings to his friends at the municipality’s yacht club. . This would have been his second visit to Spain in less than a month since he moved his residence to Abu Dhabi in August 2020.
The emeritus stayed at the home of the president of the Sanxenxo Yacht Club, his friend Pedro Campos, between May 19 and 23, the date on which –before his return to Abu Dhabi– he made a stop in Madrid to see to his family at the Palacio de la Zarzuela.
He spent eleven hours there and was able to hold “an extensive conversation time” with his son, Felipe VI, in which he addressed “family issues” as well as dealing with “various events and their consequences in Spanish society” since the emeritus moved to the Gulf country.
