Prince Charles will never process large cash donations to charities after being offered € 3 million in a bag from Qatar’s Shake, senior palace sources said.
Prince of Wales faced criticism after being reportedly offered millions of dollars in cash between 2011 and 2015.
Sanda Immes said the heir to the throne personally accepted a donation from Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad Binjasim to the Prince of Wales Charity Fund (PWCF), a charity. Said.
At one time at a meeting at Clarence House, € 1 million was handed over to Holdall, and at another time London luxury store Fortnum & Mason claimed that the carry bag was packed with cash.
There was no suggestion that the payment was illegal.
But the story cast doubt on the prince’s personal judgment.
Charles has already been caught up in the cash of the honorary scandal in allegations that former aide Michael Fawcett helped fix the CBE of Saudi Arabia’s billionaire Murray Mubarak bin Mahofs.
Campaign Group Republic requested full disclosure of the Sunday Times allegations and described the event as “shocking.”
For the first time today, a senior aide spoke in detail about the claim, saying: ‘As I said over the weekend, it was immediately handed over to his charity and it was his charity who decided to accept the money.
“It was a decision for them, they did, and the auditor saw it because they confirmed that it was following all the right processes.”
Aid said Charles was “working on the advice” and “the situation, the situation has changed over the years.”
They say: It was then, this is now, and they are not the same.
Both delivering and accepting millions of dollars in cash is legal, but large transactions can be used to launder fraudulent profits and can be of great benefit to tax avoiders. , May cause suspicion.
Charles advocates admit that “optics are useless” but “rules weren’t broken,” and an unusually packaged donation may have been accepted to “avoid violations” of Shake. Mailonline reports that it is expensive.
An aide to the senior palace continued to emphasize that the charity commission had not begun investigating money from Sheikh after saying it knew about the donation report on Monday and was investigating the issue. rice field.
Watchdog said: “We are considering whether there is a committee role to investigate these issues.”
Clarence House said the donation was “immediately” passed to one of the prince’s charities and “appropriate governance” took place.
“The charitable donations received from Sheikh Hamad bin Jasim were immediately handed over to one of the prince’s charities that ensured that we had carried out proper governance and that all the right processes were followed. “It was,” the statement said.
Only a few months after the Metropolitan Police began investigating suspected honorary scandals after Charles and his former close friend Michael Fawcett were reported on the claim.
Mr. Faucette has been accused of promising to help secure knights and British citizenship for Saudi billionaire donors linked to the Prince’s Foundation, another charity of Charles. I did.
Clarence House said the prince “did not know” about the alleged cash for the honorary scandal.
The day Prince of Wales was asked about the latest report during his engagement in Edinburgh, but did not answer.
He was in the city to preview a sculpture dedicated to NHS workers who contributed during a pandemic at the Royal University of Surgeons in Edinburgh.
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