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The alleged criminal exiled in the United Arab Emirates (who is not the emeritus king)

Alejandro Hamlyn is a businessman accused in the National Court who met in Dubai with PSOE activist Leire Díez.

Alejandro Hamlyn in a file image.
01/06/2025
1 min

MadridThe Leire Díez case series has uncovered many figures previously unknown to the general public, such as businessman Javier Pérez Dolset, the head of the UCO (National University of Cordoba), Antonio Balas, and businessman Alejandro Hamlyn (42 years old), who was due to stand trial in the National Court on Monday for a case of VAT fraud on hydrocarbons. The trial was suspended due to his absence and has been rescheduled for June 30. Hamlyn, who claims that three Civil Guard officers linked to a competing businessman have unfairly involved him in the legal case, is the man who participated in the meeting with Leire Díez from Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. As he explained on Friday in a conversation with the newspaper The Mail, cannot leave the country because he has an outstanding debt of 5,000 euros. "People think I'm loaded, but I don't even have enough to buy a pencil. Banks won't even give me a credit card, only debit cards," he stated in this interview, in which he also confessed that all the promises he made to Leire Díez to provide compromising information about UCO officials were "lies." "I blew them," he says.

To talk, the journalists fromThe Mail They travel to the house of his grandfather, José María López Tapia, located in the exclusive Neguri neighborhood, in the Biscayan coastal town of Getxo. He says he had already worked in oil trading, but he's a shipping agent. In fact, in his home he has several photographs with the King Emeritus, whose career in the world of shipping is well-known. The sea, alleged tax fraud, and the United Arab Emirates are three elements that somehow unite Hamlyn and Juan Carlos.

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