Juan Carlos I files a lawsuit against Corinna Larsen for crimes against honor | Spain
Juan Carlos I has filed a lawsuit for alleged crimes against honor against his ex -partner Corinna Larsen and the former further of the latter, the gin lawyer Canonica Dante In a Swiss court, as King Emeritus confessed to people of his trust and has confirmed the country. Canonica was also the director of the Panamanian Foundation Lucum in which the former head of state hid 65 million euros received from Saudi Arabia.
King Emeritus has not attended people of his confidence that in recent years he was advised to take judicial actions against the German consultant after he lost in the courts of London a demand for harassment and espionage that was finally filed. On the contrary, face -to -face witnesses of these conversations claim that after That judicial victory Some of the British lawyers of the three offices that defended him in that litigation encouraged him to sue Larsen for the accusations he wielded against him. « Then we convinced him that he did not, but now, poorly advised, he has changed his mind, » says one of the people to whom he has communicated his initiative.
The demand against Larsen, advanced by The newspapercoincides in time with another presented by Juan Carlos I in Spain Against the former president of Cantabria Miguel Ángel Revilla by the statements of this in different media. In this case, for alleged crimes of defamation and protection of its right to honor. And with the announcement of some memories of the former head of state that will be published next summer.
A London Court filed in 2023 the lawsuit filed by the German businesswoman against King Emeritus because she considered that The jurisdiction of the United Kingdom is not adequate to judge the case, And because the law of Larsen’s demand does not constitute a criminal figure of harassment (Harassmentin English), according to British legislation.
During that litigation, details of the Soterrada battle that for years maintained Juan Carlos I and Larsen after he refused to return the 65 million euros (100 million dollars at the change of the time) that King emeritus him donated “irrevocable”In 2012 to his then partner. A Donation revealed on March 3, 2020 by this newspaper and that the former head of state gave his friend when Swiss Bank Mirabaud & Cie will close your secret account After exploding the elephant hunting scandal in Botsuana.
The money had been received by King Emeritus in August 2008 through a transfer from the Ministry of Finance of Saudi Arabia. An investigation by the Swiss prosecutor Yves Belyrssa failed to prove that it was the payment of a commission for the contract that a group of Spanish companies to build the bird to MECA. Larsen hidden 65 million in one of his off shore accounts in The subsidiary in (Bahamas) of Banco Gonet & Cie And in an entity Banking in New York And he refused to return the money.
The inclusion in the lawsuit of the lawyer Ginebrino Dante Canonica has surprised because it is the person who directed the Panamanian society Lucum, whose name were deposited in the Swiss bank the 65 million that were not declared to the Spanish hacienda. Still still a mystery The cause for which king Abdalá Bin Abdelaziz delivered this « gift » (« Gift », as the money in the bank by the account manager appears in the entry annotation of the entrance) to Juan Carlos I. Canonica was, in turn, Larsen’s lawyer, although her relationship cooled when the German refused to return the 65 million. In his statements before the Swiss prosecutor who charged both of money laundering, this lawyer contributed details about King Emeritus, his trips to the Palacio de la Zarzuela in Madrid and the management of money. Details and revelations that are now questioned. The Swiss cause was finally filed.
This newspaper has tried to recover the vision of Corinna Larsen, without obtaining an answer.
