Former executive director of the Prince Charles Foundation, Michael Fawcett, has resigned over allegations that he helped a Saudi billionaire receive an honorary title in exchange for donations to the association.
New evidence has been submitted to the allegations “Money for titles and honors “associated with one of the King Charles Charities, to the Crown Prosecution Service in Britain.
The allegations are linked to the Princess Foundation, a charitable foundation established by King Charles III when he was Prince of Wales. .
These investigations were opened following reports published by a newspaper regarding allegations that a Saudi donor made a donation to the Prince’s Foundation in return for his help in obtaining an honorary title.
Buckingham Palace said it would not comment on police investigations at this time.
The charity concerned with these allegations did not initially comment on this, but issued a statement stating that “a file was submitted to the Royal Prosecution Authority on October 31.”
“The investigations continue, and we will not comment as they progress,” the statement said.
The Sunday Times reported that prosecutors were expected to decide before Christmas whether to press charges, but no arrests had been made so far.
Republic filed a complaint with DC investigators once morest Charles and his close friend Michael Fawcett in September 2021, following news of the case broke.
Fawcett, who has since resigned as chief executive of the Princess Foundation, faces accusations that he promised Saudi billionaire Mahfouz Mari Mubarak bin Mahfouz to help him obtain a knighthood and British citizenship.
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British police sent a file of new evidence in these allegations on October 31: last October
Mahfouz was already awarded an OBE in 2016 amid allegations that he donated restoration projects to the Prince Charles Foundation.
The allegations circulated in this regard did not suggest that the Saudi billionaire would be accused of any wrongdoing.
And the British police said last September that they had investigated a person in their fifties and another in their forties who spoke to them amid warnings on the sixth of last September, that is, two days before the death of Queen Elizabeth II, following which Prince Charles ascended to power.
It is likely that the police did not speak with the King of Britain in this regard nor asked him to speak regarding it.
When the investigation opened in February, a spokesman for Charles at Clarence House said that Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales at the time, had “no knowledge of the alleged offer of honors and British citizenship in return for a donation to his charities”.
