The College of Attorneys of A Coruña and the Galician Foundation against Drug Trafficking warn that the Organic Law Project for the efficiency of the Public Justice Service would put at risk one of the pillars of effectiveness in the fight against drug trafficking in Galicia, since The legislative project, processed in Congress and which will now go to the Senate, modifies article 636 and leaves without content 641 of the Civil Procedure Law, which empowered the attorney associations to carry out auctions as specialized entities.
In practice, this modification would prevent the College and the Foundation from managing and auctioning the assets seized from drug trafficking, making it impossible to provide a service especially valued by the police and judicial units of Galicia, with which they contribute and collaborate effectively in the fight against drug trafficking. racketeering.
Thus, the aforementioned legal reform – as it is drafted if it is definitively approved – would represent a serious setback in the fight against drug trafficking, since it hinders – if not prevents – and slows down the sale of the seized movable property when it becomes only the judicial auction through the Official State Gazette as a sales channel.
The dean of the College of Attorneys of A Coruña, Javier Carlos Sánchez García, and the president of the Galician Foundation against Drug Trafficking, Manuel Couceiro Cachaldora, have sent a letter to the Secretary of State for Justice, Manuel Olmedo, and to all parliamentary groups expressing their concern about the planned legal modification and requesting that this provision be left without effect in the final wording of the law.
A decade of collaboration
The Xunta de Galicia has been collaborating with the College and the Foundation for ten years, making this tool available to the courts and providing a service that has the support of all actors in the fight against drugs in the Galician Community.
The SGB, now in danger, helps streamline the work of judicial units, provides direct income to the State through the advance sale of assets under judicial authorization, reduces storage costs and encourages the social use of confiscated assets.
The system works after the corresponding operation by the State Security Forces and Bodies, the Service, always under a court order, and involves in the first instance the collection of the property, its deposit and custody. Subsequently, a specialized expert proceeds to appraise the assets deposited for subsequent auction by the College of Attorneys in its capacity as a specialized entity and through the attorney auction portal, informing the Court of all this.
Those goods whose sale is not considered appropriate are managed seeking a social return that helps compensate for the damage that drug trafficking and drugs cause to the entire society.
To provide this service, the College of Attorneys of A Coruña has a warehouse center of considerable size, due to the large number of vehicles and drug boats that are guarded. The facilities have recently been expanded in a new location to guarantee service to the Galician police and judicial units.
It is worth remembering that, on October 9, after holding a work day at the headquarters of the Galician Academy of Public Security, the Xunta announced the preparation of a protocol for the management of movable property seized in anti-drug operations that favors a common work dynamic in Galicia and allows for continued progress in the work carried out by the College of Attorneys and the Galician Foundation against Drug Trafficking with police and judicial authorities.
The meeting was attended by specialists from the Intelligence Center against Terrorism and Organized Crime (CITCO) and anti-drug units from the Civil Guard, Customs Surveillance and National Police, who endorse the suitability of the service.
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