A new revelation relating to the well-stocked Swiss bank account of Spain's king emeritus Juan Carlos I: the now-retired king gave a second large sum from the Geneva account to a second woman with whom he had also had an amorous relationship. Marta Gayá, former lover of the monarch, is claimed to have received two million euros in two installments in 2011 and 2012, from the same Swiss bank account which was also the source of the 65 million euros transferred to Corinna Larsen in 2012. This account, which had a balance of more than 100 million euros, is being investigated by Swiss public prosecutors.
The payments to Marta Gayá were made from the Panamanian offshore account Lucum Foundation, according to Spanish digital newspaper OK Diario. This foundation was used by the so-called "straw men" acting for the Spanish monarch to hide commissions and international transactions. It was one of these men, Dante Canonica, who ordered the transfers of funds to Marta Gayá, a Mallorcan businessperson who has been resident in Geneva since 2007.
Juan Carlos I, notorious for his extramarital relationships, had an affair with Gayá for more than five years in the 1990s, before the then-king began a new relationship with Corinna Larsen. According to OK Diario, Juan Carlos resumed contact with the Mallorcan when his relationship with Corinna was already cooling and he was worried about his economic situation, which was, the paper claims, the reason for the two million euro transfer.
In 2012, Juan Carlos I gave Corinna Larsen 65 million euros from the Mirabaud bank account in Switzerland, in which a donation of around 100 million dollars had allegedly been deposited in 2007 by the Saudi royal house. The account was in the name of the Lucum Foundation, a Panamanian entity of which Juan Carlos I is the sole beneficiary. Juan Carlos abdicated from the Spanish throne in 2014 in favour of his son, Felipe VI.