A group composed of retired Supreme Court magistrates, retired anti-corruption prosecutors and various intellectuals has filed a criminal complaint against the emeritus King Juan Carlos I. The legal action, addressed to the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court, accuses him of having committed five tax crimes against the Public Treasury between 2014 and 2018.
Non-prescribed offenses according to the complaint
In the complaint, to which Europa Press has had access, the plaintiffs argue that the alleged tax offenses are not time-barred. In addition, they claim that the Prosecutor’s Office informed Juan Carlos of the opening of an investigation linked to tax irregularities. According to the text presented, they criticize the procedure of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, underlining that the initial notification could not include an exhaustive knowledge of the possible infractions due to the fact that this data depends on the final resolution of the Tax Agency.
Context of the accusation
The document stresses that the tax regularization, for which Juan Carlos paid significant sums to the public treasury in recent years, is only valid if no prior sanctioning proceedings have been initiated. The complaint argues that such regularizations may not have closed the way to a criminal investigation.
