Le Monde, the leading French political daily, has admitted that the Spanish monarchy is "trembling" after the Tribune de Genève revealed that former Spanish king Juan Carlos I held a 100-million-dollar bank account in Switzerland.
The newspaper informs that the disclosure of this information has divided the Spanish coalition government partners. While Unidas Podemos, together with Catalan pro-independence parties, demand a parliamentary commission of inquiry, the Spanish Socialist party (PSOE) vetoes it and defends Juan Carlos I. "The revelations about former Spanish monarch’s secret fortune, fed by Saudi resources, have since caused a great deal of uproar south of the Pyrenees," he says.
In the midst of this controversy, Le Monde says, Spanish justice has asked Switzerland for details of Juan Carlos's bank account, and recalls that the monarch "lost total immunity in 2014 when he abdicated the Spanish throne to his son Felipe VI”.
According to Le Monde, the epicentre of the case is Corinna, who raised the suspicions of the Swiss prosecutor's office. "82-year-old retired king’s lover is at the centre of this financial scandal that is shaking the royal house: Corinna Larsen, better known by the name of her ex-husband - a German prince - Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein. 26 years younger than her lover, the Danish-born German businesswoman received a $64 million "donation" in 2012 to an account in the Bahamas, which set off the alarm for Swiss prosecutor Yves Bertossa," the newspaper explains.