Strong ruling from the Girona Court in the most serious police corruption case linked to drug trafficking tried so far in Catalonia. The magistrates have imposed sentences of 10 years and nine months, nine 10 years and one month and nine years and nine months for a corporal and two agents of the Mossos d’Esquadra of Santa Coloma de Farners (Girona) for trafficking previously seized marijuana and that it was kept at the local police station.
“They did not request the destruction of the buds and kept them to use for illicit trafficking,” settles the ruling of the Girona Court, to which elDiario.es has had access. Despite the conviction, the resolution criticizes the investigation of the case for not having properly preserved the buds that started the case in the summer of 2020. This “incomprehensible forgetfulness,” highlights the sentence, “does not invalidate” the conclusion that the agents They trafficked marijuana, obtained based on the numerous telephone conversations intercepted between the convicted persons.
The group’s criminal activity did not generate substantial increases in assets, since the agents took the drugs from the police station in small quantities “so as not to arouse suspicion” among their colleagues. Each of the convicted police officers, the sentence describes, had a role: one took the drugs and took them to the house of another agent, who contacted a local trafficker and made sure that they did not spoil.
The sentence punishes the corporal with 4 years and 3 months for a crime against public health aggravated by his position, 2 years and 6 months for theft, 6 months for belonging to a criminal group and 3 years and 6 months for falsifying an official document. In addition, it fines him 14,245 euros and disqualifies him from working as a police officer for both the Mossos d’Esquadra and any other police force during the time of his sentence.
The OH agent is sentenced to 4 years in prison for a crime against public health, 3 and a half months for belonging to a criminal group, 2 and a half years for theft and 3 years for falsification of an official document committed by a public official, as well as the same fined SM and is also disqualified as a police officer.
The third agent, JFP, has been sentenced to 4 years and 3 months in prison and a fine of 17,582 euros for a crime against public health, 3 months for belonging to a criminal group, 2 years for theft and 3 years and 7 months for discovery. and disclosure of secrets committed by a public official. Likewise, he is disqualified from practicing in the police field during all that time.
As for the marriage formed by a local trafficker and his partner, both accused of being part of the network, the former was sentenced to 2 years and 3 months in prison for a crime against public health and belonging to a criminal group, and she was acquitted. of all the accusations.
The agents pleaded not guilty during the trial to accusations supported by images and audio captured in the unmarked vehicle they used and through police station cameras, which recorded one of them with bags of drugs.
The evidence has been overwhelming against the agents. Among the conversations recorded by the Internal Affairs Unit and that fed into the house’s summary, conversations stand out in which the trafficker even asks one of the convicted agents for a scale.
Regarding the images, the corporal was recorded when he was removing five bags of marijuana from the container where the seized was deposited and in which they had just introduced drugs that had just been seized.
Subsequently, the Internal Affairs Directorate followed him and saw that he was taking them to the house of one of the agents, although the corporal denied it during the trial and the police assured that he had them at his home for his own consumption with the aim of alleviating a strong backache.
The ruling rejects the defense’s request to annul the wiretaps and searches for having taken a statement from the informant in the case as a witness, understanding that it should have been done as an investigator for having admitted that he was trafficking drugs.
The argument for the ruling is that this individual had “a double capacity, of witness and accused” and an irregularity is recognized by not having been informed of the second, but without entailing the annulment requested by the lawyers of the defendants.
The investigators who testified at the trial recounted the usual operation after a marijuana seizure, consisting of bagging it for destruction, a practice broken by this organization, which stole a portion for sale on the illicit market with the help of the convicted small local trafficker.
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