The National Police decorated the agents who put the prosecutor on the bench Miguel Ángel They will rise and the judge Manuel Penalva who investigated nightlife entrepreneur Bartomeu Cursach during the annual gala in honor of the feast of the Guardian Angels, patron saint of the Corps.
The provincial commissioner Juan Marquez and the inspector Juan Palomo played a key role in the creation of what is known as Cursach case took a 180º turn and the investigators of the case were distanced from the largest macro-cause of corruption in the history of the Balearic Islands, which ended with the acquittal of the businessman of Mallorcan nightlife, by the anti-corruption prosecutor. Thomas Herranz crying and apologizing to the nightlife mogul, and the conviction of Penalva and Subirán in a subsequent trial.
Cursach was acquitted of all 16 crimes of which he was accused, as drug trafficking, corruption of minors, membership in a criminal organization, bribery, extortion, threatscoercion, use of privileged information, crimes against the public treasury, money laundering, influence peddling, falsification of documents, procedural fraud, provision of false documents during trials, illicit possession of weapons and crimes against the rights of workers.
Juan Márquez and Juan Palomo have always maintained that Penalva and Subírán committed serious crimes during the investigation and finally the judge and the prosecutor were initially sentenced in November 2023 to nine years and one day in prison, with a maximum execution limit of 7 years and 6 months, for obstructing justice and coercing former advisor PP from Palma. Alvaro Gijon. A decision which is still awaiting the resolution of the appeal before the Supreme Court.
Penalva and Subírán were tried for alleged illegal detentions, obstruction of justice, revealing secrets and coercion during the investigation of the case. Cursach case.
The decoration awarded to the two police officers was criticized by the president of the Superior Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands (TSJB), Carlos Gomez, who did not attend the event, considering that the Superior Prefecture of Police hastened to award medals to two investigators concerned from the a case which has not yet been judicially closed.
The attribution of these two key agents in the conviction of the instructors of the Cursach case joined the recognition that Palma City Hall of the PP, chaired by the mayor Jaime Martinez, will take place on the occasion of the next Local Police Day to prosecutor Herranzwho tearfully exonerated Mallorcan nightlife entrepreneur Bartolomé Cursach of several crimes.
Palma City Hall will grant Herranz the Police Merit Cross with white badge, a distinction which rewards agents who have distinguished themselves through meritorious actions, particularly in the defense of citizens’ rights and freedoms.
We do not know if among the merits highlighted by the citizen security advisor, Michel Busquetsawarding Herranz this award includes the fact that he rejected more than a hundred pieces of evidence and refused to interview fourteen key witnesses.
To these decorations awarded to key people in the final evolution of the case, we must add the fact that the Court of the Balearic Islands also vetoed the criminal complaint against the prosecutor Herranz that three agents of the Local Police of Palma attempted to present for insults and widespread slander during the trial of the Majorcan night tycoon.
The agents denounced the prosecutor for insults and slander before the state attorney general’s officewho declined to process it, informing the plaintiffs that, according to the regulations, they had to request authorization from the court in question to file the complaint because it concerned events that occurred during the trial.
