More scandal for Spanish royals
Source: Wikipedia Former king of Spain Juan Carlos I accused of using 'lover' to secure low-tax property deals The former king of Spain, Juan Carlos I, used his alleged lover Princess Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein to buy multiple overseas properties due to her tax residence in Monaco, according to claims made by the German aristocrat in a leaked audio recording. In a 2015 conversation with a former Spanish police officer in London, Princess Corinna alleged that the king’s lawyers put her name on overseas properties without her permission, complaining that she was being drawn into “ money laundering ”. The 53-year-old princess, who obtained her title from her second marriage, also claimed that Juan Carlos I held bank accounts in Switzerland in the name of his cousin, Álvaro Orleans de Borbón. The allegations in the recording, published by the Spanish newspapers El Español and OK Diario, are the latest controversies to spring from the long- reputed relation