The previous lover of Spain’s king emeritus, Juan Carlos, has testified that her life had been threatened by a former spy chief on orders from the exiled monarch himself in a dialog that “terrified” her.
The explosive testimony on Friday by German-born enterprise marketing consultant Corinna Larsen emerged in the course of the trial of a infamous retired police chief suspected of large-scale corruption whose revelations have shaken Spain’s elite.
However her allegations have been denied by Normal Felix Sanz Roldan, who served as head of Spain’s CNI intelligence providers between 2009 and 2019.
Chatting with a courtroom in Madrid by video convention from London, Larsen – who additionally makes use of the surname zu Sayn-Wittgenstein – stated she had been straight threatened in Could 2012 by Sanz Roldan.
And she or he testified that the orders had in the end come from the then monarch, Juan Carlos I.
Throughout her affair with the king, which she stated resulted in 2012, two years earlier than his abdication, Larsen stated she obtained delicate paperwork concerning the “monetary and enterprise dealings” of the king and the royal family, which the safety providers wished to pay money for.
‘Terrified’
Testifying in courtroom, she stated Sanz Roldan had contacted her on a number of events to clarify that till she handed over the paperwork, she wouldn’t be protected, threatening each her and her kids in a gathering at London’s Connaught Resort on Could 5, 2012.
She stated he had laid out varied suggestions “which have been the truth is orders” which he suggested her to observe.
“He stated except I adopted them, he couldn’t assure my bodily security or the bodily security of my kids,” she instructed the courtroom, saying his phrases “terrified me.”
However Sanz Roldan flatly denied the allegations, later telling the courtroom he had “by no means ever threatened a lady or a toddler”.
‘Similar destiny as Girl Di?’
Larsen stated the assembly had been “organised on the categorical want” of the king himself.
“King Juan Carlos and Normal Sanz Roldan all the time took nice pains to elucidate that the king was commanding the overall to hold out these operations in order that’s an necessary reality to notice, that these directions got here from the highest.”
Later that day, she flew to Switzerland and on coming into the household house within the Alps, discovered a e-book about Girl Diana’s 1997 loss of life in a high-speed automotive crash in a Paris tunnel.
A number of hours later, in the course of the evening, she stated she obtained an nameless name in Spanish saying: “There are various tunnels between Monaco and Good.” Larsen has lived in Monaco up to now.
“This hit dwelling the fact of the threats and the hazard I discovered myself in.”
Requested by the prosecution why she had not come ahead prior to now, Larsen stated she feared for her personal security on condition that each Sanz Roldan and the king benefitted from diplomatic immunity.
“Denouncing Normal Sanz Roldan, who’s a secretary of state and has full immunity, I’d have needed to denounce the king of Spain himself because the individual giving these orders and he was lined by immunity,” she stated.
“We didn’t suppose that the police in London may really assist me or shield me.”
‘Why threaten her?’
Larsen was testifying on the trial of former police chief Jose Manuel Villarejo, who’s within the dock on costs of constructing a false allegation and slander for alleging Sanz Roldan had “threatened to kill” Larsen in an interview revealed in June 2017.
Larsen met Villarejo at her dwelling in London in April 2015, the place she instructed him concerning the threats in a dialog which he recorded with out her data or consent.
He stated he met her on the CNI’s orders, pretending to be a lawyer who may assist her with the intention to trick her into handing over the paperwork.
Regardless of his work with the company, his relationship with Sanz Roldan deteriorated considerably within the following years and in June 2017, Villarejo leaked particulars of the risk in a TV interview.
5 months later he was arrested.
Villarejo met “many occasions” with Larsen, with a recording of 1 such encounter triggering an enormous probe into the funds of the 83-year-old former king, one in all a string of corruption allegations.
Juan Carlos fled into self-imposed exile within the United Arab Emirates in August, saying on the time he didn’t need his private affairs to undermine the reign of his son King Felipe VI.