Police are considering bringing criminal charges over The Prince’s Foundation ‘cash-for-honours’ scandal
- Tycoons were allegedly offered honours for donations to Charles’s charity
Police were last night considering bringing criminal charges over The Prince’s Foundation ‘cash-for-honours’ scandal, The Mail on Sunday has learned.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has now analysed evidence into claims first published in this newspaper that foreign tycoons were being offered help to obtain honours in exchange for donations to King Charles’s charity.
The Met Police said: ‘A file was passed to the CPS on October 31, 2022 for early advice. On Thursday, we received the advice and it is now being considered.’
The CPS has now analysed evidence into claims first published in this newspaper that foreign tycoons were being offered help to obtain honours in exchange for donations to King Charles’s charity
The Met Police said: ‘A file was passed to the CPS on October 31, 2022 for early advice. On Thursday, we received the advice and it is now being considered’
The case focuses on a letter first published in the Mail on Sunday in which Michael Fawcett, a long-time aide of the King and a former chief executive of the charity, offered to help a wealthy Saudi donor obtain a Knighthood and British citizenship in exchange for his ongoing generosity.
Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz had given generously to the charity and was presented with a CBE in 2016 by the King, then the Prince of Wales, in a private ceremony at Buckingham Place which was not disclosed on the court circular, the official record of royal duties.
Emails appeared to show a direct link between the donations received and the honours.
Two men were questioned under caution over the scandal.
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