$100M

SIGNIFICANT NUMBER

The ex-lover of Juan Carlos, the disgraced former king of Spain, has described his decision to transfer over $100 million to her as an “enormously generous gift,” dismissing claims of money laundering. Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein told the BBC that the 82-year-old royal had given her the money as “recognition of how much I meant to him” and out of “gratitude for looking after him during his absolutely worst moments.” A Swiss court has placed the transfer, which took place in 2012, under investigation for alleged money laundering. Juan Carlos has not spoken publicly about the transfer. but The Daily Telegraph has seen a document from the Geneva investigation in which he also claims it was a gift that he had no intention of seeking it back.