A Civil Guard agent assigned to the Economic Management Unit (UGE) of the Valencia Command admitted this Monday before the popular jury that judges him to have allocated 164,835 euros between at least 2014 and until 2020. falsification of documents to collect fictitious service fees.
The accused, aged 67, agreed to return everything stolen after generating, at least, 114 opportunities documents on non-existent service fees with a payment schedule until 2037.
Based on these facts, the prosecution is requesting a seven-year and one-month prison sentence for the crime of falsifying official documents as a means of committing a continuing crime of embezzlement of public funds with the aggravating circumstance of breach of trust and the mitigating circumstance of partial compensation for the damage, since so far she has already returned 5,900 euros and still has 10,221 euros seized from her accounts. Likewise, he is claiming 18 years of absolute prohibition.
For its part, the public prosecutor, as a private prosecutor, raises the request for a sentence to eight years in prison, while the defense reduces it to five years, after understanding that the aggravating circumstance of breach of trust does not exist.
In this regard, the defendant stated that “there cannot be” because in order to complete the procedures of the service commissions, he had to submit the documentation to his superiors for them to sign.Trust was not necessary.“, it was justified.
The accused, who joined the Civil Guard in 1976, was stationed in the Economic Management Unit of the Valencian area, which includes the entire Valencian Community, where he was in charge of the management and supervision of the service commissions.
The irregularities, according to the provisional account of the Prosecutor acknowledged by the accused, began in 2014 when the officer, who was crossing economic difficultiesTaking advantage of both the knowledge of the corresponding internal and banking operations, as well as the “trust of his managers”, who were the ones who formalized the payments, he generated at least 114 times documents in his own name or that of other agents with data that he obtained from the bases to give “the appearance of plausibility”.
However, at the “ideal moment” to formalize the payment, he entered his own data. Thus, according to the public prosecutor, the corresponding amounts were paid in two bank accounts you haveTomorrow the subject of the verdict is expected to be handed over to the jury.
