Spain's supreme court prosecutor has opened an investigation into former King Juan Carlos in connection with a high-speed train contract in Saudi Arabia, piling pressure on a once-popular monarch who abdicated six years ago.
The prosecutor will investigate whether the former ruler can be included in the case in respect of any action that took place after he lost his immunity when he abdicated in June 2014, the general prosecutor said Monday.
The investigation into the king derived from another probe led by the country's anti-corruption prosecutor over the second phase of a high-speed railway linking the cities of Medina and Mecca in Saudi Arabia that was granted to a group of Spanish companies in 2011.