Secret recording sheds light on Zac Goldsmith tax evasion case

Zac Goldsmith is a close ally of Boris Johnson, who stayed at his family’s Costa del Sol estate last year. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock

Zac Goldsmith faces fresh questions about his involvement in a multimillion-pound tax evasion scheme in Spain after a family friend was secretly recorded trying to enlist a police officer to help “resolve” the case.

The family friend, businesswoman Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, the ex-lover of Spain’s former King Juan Carlos, was recorded telling the senior police officer the Conservative politician’s career would be “dead” if details of the case became public.