Daily Mail: Spain's former King Juan Carlos, 82, flees the country into 'forced exile' as $100m corruption scandal surrounding him threatens to undermine the Monarchy
* Spain's former monarch, King Juan Carlos I, says he is leaving Spain
* It comes after corruption allegations about him had surfaced in recent weeks
* Spain's PM recently said he found developments about Juan Carlos 'disturbing'
Spain's former monarch, King Juan Carlos I, has announced he is leaving Spain to live in another country amid a financial scandal.
Former king Juan Carlos told his son, King Felipe, that he decided to leave Spain, the royal house said in a statement on Monday.
On Monday night it emerged the former King of Spain had already left the country.
Well-placed sources close to the Spanish Royal Household confirmed he was no longer in Spain.
It comes on the back of a series of scandals involving the long-serving monarch, who abdicated in June 2014 after four decades on the throne.
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WNU Editor: Apparently he has already left Spain .... Former king Juan Carlos has already left Spain, El Mundo says (Reuters).
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As if $100 mil is something a King should do a scandal for!
ReplyDeleteHeck even bankers cause misappropriation and fraud for more.
He really lowered the bar.
Where is the scandal?
ReplyDeleteI see pieces of a scandal. Money changed hands of that I am sure. I fail yet to see who was wronged and how the Spanish people or the Spanish government has standing.
All I know is that the was a contract in Saudi Arabia for high speed rail and that the Saudi King gave 100 million to the Spanish King. It being a kingdom the Saudi King can do what he wants when awarding a contract or giving money.
Usually a company gives a kickback to someone like the kings to get a contract. So this seems all ass backwards.
Maybe the Spanish government should be thanking the Spanish King for getting a contract for Spanish companies? Spanish companies should be somewhere in the mix, but Spanish government and MSM reporting is so bad that it is hard to tell what is going on.