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Juan Carlos, Spain’s exiled former king, has apparently tired of the United Arab Emirates, where he’s been cooling his heels for a year and a half while being investigated for corruption. It seems he’d like to return to Spain. Oh, and live in the royal family’s Zarzuela Palace outside Madrid while drawing an annual stipend of $265,000, according to The Times of London. Reportedly, these are not requests but demands. It’s unclear just how welcome—or unwelcome—the 83-year-old ex-monarch, who abdicated in 2014, would be with the Spanish public. Or for that matter with his successor, King Felipe VI: the relationship between father and son, said the newspaper El Confidencial, was “at a low point … practically nonexistent.”

But Juan Carlos’s chances of a comfy return home improved this week when a prosecutor who had been looking into an alleged $86 million kickback for Juan Carlos’s role in securing a contract for a high-speed train link to Mecca announced that the case had been dropped, according to The Times. The prosecutor “could not find enough evidence to link the payment with the railway contract,” reported the newspaper. “He did acknowledge that Juan Carlos had received that sum of money in 2008 from the Saudi Arabian treasury ministry into an account belonging to the Lucum Foundation, a Panamanian offshore company allegedly created by Juan Carlos.”