The shadow battle that Corinna Larsen and Juan Carlos I have had since 2012 for the 65 million euros that the King of Saudi Arabia Abdullah Ben Abdelazziz gave, on August 8, 2008, to the then Head of State in his hidden account of the Panamanian foundation Lucum, in the Mirabaud bank in Geneva, emerges in the lawsuit filed by the German consultant before the British High Court of Justice (High Court of Justice).
In the 20-page letter, the ex-partner of the king emeritus affirms that Juan Carlos I demanded his return “or make available” the 65 million that he had donated to him “irrevocably” in June 2012. After the scandal of the elephant hunt in Botswana, Mirabaud’s partners asked the external manager of the account, Arturo Fasana, to cancel it due to the reputational damage that could be caused to the entity if the money hidden by the then head of state was disclosed. Don Juan Carlos then donated the 65 million to Corinna Larsen and transferred them to an account of a Panamanian company of the latter at the Gonet bank in Nassau (Bahamas), a tax haven. At that time, the relationship between the two was one of absolute complicity.
When the couple broke up, a battle began that has not yet ended and whose crudest exposition is this lawsuit filed by Larsen’s lawyers in London, in December 2020. The consultant affirms in its complaint that when he refused to return the money the King Emeritus “defamed her” by assuring that she had stolen from him. And she adds that he reported the alleged theft to the king of Saudi Arabia, Salman Bin Abdulazziz, and to the crown prince of the Saudi crown.
The alleged harassmentharassment in English) took place, according to Larsen, after his refusal to refund the money. From then on there was “an open and covert monitoring” of his life in London, where he lives, and in Monte Carlo, where he has a house, which allegedly would have been carried out by agents of the National Intelligence Center (CNI) and for which he blames to Juan Carlos I. The lawsuit points to General Félix Sanz Roldán, then head of the CNI, and attributes responsibility for some alleged threats that he denies.
The former head of the Spanish secret service has acknowledged that he traveled to London in May 2012 to meet with Larsen at The Connaught hotel where she was temporarily residing. She did it weeks after the accident in Botswana with the authorization of then President Mariano Rajoy and the knowledge of Juan Carlos I. The spy chief told her that she “had the responsibility of 45 million Spaniards on her shoulders”, alluding to the need to preserve institutional stability in the face of succession to the Crown, according to sources familiar with the meeting. At that time, Juan Carlos I was determined to divorce and marry Larsen. The version of the latter is different: she affirms that she felt intimidated and threatened.
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The CNI had previously investigated Larsen by order of President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. He did so because of the risk that the person who lived with the then king had relations with personalities from the Government of Vladimir Putin, according to sources close to the CNI. The secret service note concluded that there was no one else after the lover of Juan Carlos I. “What there was was a life project together, which was cut short since the Botswana scandal. The 65 million, the apartments in the Swiss ski resort of Villars-sur-Ollon and the house in London were part of that plan, ”says a person close to the king emeritus.
“Why did Juan Carlos I give you those 65 million?” Prosecutor Yves Bertossa asked Larsen during the money laundering investigation that he finally filed. “He offered Me that money out of gratitude and out of love,” he replied. “In 2012 our client received an unsolicited gift from the King Emeritus, who described it as a form of donation for her and her son, both of whom he had grown fond of. He had spent several years in poor health during which our client took care of him, ”justified his lawyer, Robin Ratmell, to EL PAÍS when this newspaper revealed, in 2020, the existence of the donation.
Larsen asks in her lawsuit for a court order that prevents Juan Carlos I from communicating with her, following her, defaming her or approaching her at a distance of less than 150 meters. And he demands compensation that he does not quantify for damages. Sources close to the king emeritus deny all the accusations included in the lawsuit.
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