MADRID: Spain's scandal-tinted former king Juan Carlos will make his third visit home this week since moving to Abu Dhabi in 2020 amid fraud investigations, a source close to the family said on Tuesday .
Spanish media reports said the 85-year-old would attend a regatta in which his yacht, El Bribon - Spanish for"The Rascal" - is competing. Juan Carlos was for decades revered for his role in steering Spain to democracy after the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975. He fled to the United Arab Emirates in August 2020 as investigators pursued three probes into his finances.
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