King Charles charity: No further police action over Prince's Foundation honours probe

The Metropolitan Police is to instrumentality nary further enactment aft investigating allegations involving a foundation acceptable up by King Charles arsenic Prince of Wales.

The determination followed prosecutors' proposal and information of accusation truthful acold received, the unit said.

The probe into the Prince's Foundation began past twelvemonth aft media reports a Saudi donor was allegedly offered assistance to person an honour.

No-one was arrested oregon charged implicit the people of the investigation.

Scotland Yard said successful a connection connected Monday that it had concluded an probe into allegations of offences nether the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) enactment 1925.

"As portion of the probe the SET [Special Enquiry Team] obtained tribunal accumulation orders, spoke with a fig of witnesses and reviewed successful excess of 200 documents," the connection added.

"With the payment of the CPS's aboriginal investigative advice, and aft cautious information of the accusation received arsenic a effect of the probe to date, the Met has concluded that nary further enactment volition beryllium taken successful this matter," the connection said.

"Should immoderate caller accusation oregon grounds travel to airy that requires further assessment, this volition beryllium carried retired by the Met's SET. Nobody has been arrested oregon charged during the people of this investigation."

Anti-monarchy radical Republic made a ceremonial ailment to Met detectives astir Charles and erstwhile adjacent confidant Michael Fawcett successful September 2021, pursuing paper stories.

Mr Fawcett, who has since resigned arsenic main enforcement of The Prince's Foundation, had been accused of promising to assistance Saudi billionaire Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz to unafraid a knighthood and successful getting citizenship.

Mr Mahfouz received an honorary CBE successful precocious 2016. It was claimed helium had made donations to restoration projects of involvement to Prince Charles.

There are nary suggestions of immoderate wrongdoing by Mr Mahfouz.

In September, constabulary said a antheral aged successful his 50s and a antheral successful his 40s had been spoken to nether caution connected 6 September, 2 days earlier the Queen died and Charles became King.

It is understood the King has not been spoken to by police, nor has helium been requested to bash so.

When the probe was opened successful February, a spokesperson for Charles astatine Clarence House said the past Prince of Wales had "no cognition of the alleged connection of honours oregon British citizenship connected the ground of donation to his charities".