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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Spain: Prosecutors shelve fraud probes haunting former king

Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

Spanish prosecutors are shelving two investigations into alleged financial wrongdoing in Juan Carlos I's business dealings that prompted the former monarch to move from Spain to Abu Dhabi.

Prosecutors in the Spanish Supreme Court said Wednesday they didn't find evidence that could be prosecuted, because the monarch was protected by immunity until his abdication eight years ago and because any possible fraud fell out of the statute of limitations.

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