A retired national police officer was sentenced to six months in prison with seven other defendants, including the “madam” of an apartment dedicated to prostitution in Ciudad Jardin and several “thugs” that the main defendant called to threaten and coerce the foreigners to whom he had lent money to a “excessive interest» to have it returned.
In the judgment of conformity rendered ‘in voce’ during the trial held this Monday, to which ABC had access, the defendants admitted the facts with which they were accused. The judgment considers that it is proven that from the first quarter of 2018, the “madam” – sentenced to two years in prison – operated the apartment located in a street in Garden citya place intended for prostitution, with at least seven foreign subjects.
To do this, he contacted different women of different nationalities, whom he forced to prostitutetaking advantage of their irregular situation in Spain, to subject them to difficult working conditions and restrictions on their freedom of movement since he controlled their arrival time, becoming angry if they did not respect the schedule.
In this way, the defendants “forced them to be constantly on the phone to serve customers and urged them to maintain sexual relations with users who demanded not to wear any means of protection because they were paying more.
Often, according to the judgment, the accused – a retired national police officer – visited the apartment, acknowledging that he had a cordial relationship with the accused and “was well informed about the practice of prostitution in this house, but, according to the judgment of conformity, it was not proven that he participated in the business, beyond lending to women who worked in the property on several occasions at a excessive interest”.
Passport as a deposit
The accused had devoted himself to lending money preferably to foreign citizens, requiring as security in most cases the passport so they can’t leave the city. In the event that they did not pay the amount on time, they called them insistently and warned them “that they were going to get them”, even going so far as to inform a borrower on June 20, 2019 of her late payment. , “that they were going to look for her and that they were going severed handwho had their address.
Frequently, as the court ruling indicates, a group of individuals collaborated with the defendants and were responsible for going to the borrowers’ homes and businesses and aggressively insisting that they pay the debt with interest, and even sometimes, if they didn’t. pay, they materialized their warnings resulting in damage to customer property.
Similarly, in May 2018, the accused lent 500 euros to an individual, demanding five euros in interest per day until full payment. Subsequently, and because the borrower began to fall behind in his payments, the defendant began to harass him by phone, and he told her on June 20, 2019 “that he had the money and the courage to send seven gypsies and that they were going to set fire to his boss’s business, his house and everything that was necessary, and that he was not going to do it.” with the little ones.
I was going to set his house on fire
Likewise, he repeated shortly after that he “told his mother that he couldn’t give her money because a guy I was going to set the house on firealso warning him that this was going to end badly, ending with the advice that he hoped he wouldn’t have to send anyone to collect from him, as the people who were going to collect didn’t have as much understanding as he did.
The accused also came to work several times to claim the debt, which scared this debtor. Furthermore, on June 22, 2019, the accused sent one of the attendants to scare customers and demand payment-another of the convicts-, who arrived at the car wash where this debtor worked and told him to pay the debt, otherwise something would happen to him.
Later, another accused called the retired national police officer to tell him what had happened and told him that he would give him the address of his mother-in-law and his girlfriend in order to that they can debt charges if he ultimately didn’t pay. In 2017, the former agent also lent the sum of 1,600 euros to another immigrant, who was also unable to pay the sum. debt paymentSo, in February 2019, the accused showed up at his house and, through the window, told him that they would come to his house to pick him up, which scared him very much.
Later, the following month, two defendants showed up at the aforementioned house, sent by the former police officer, who aggressively demanded payment of the debt and tried to intimidate this debtor and his partner, whom they called them “gonorrhea and bastards”, in an attempt to scare them. Subsequently, between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. on June 19, one or more of the accused, with the full agreement of everyone, with the exception of the accused who managed the apartment dedicated to prostitution, returned to the debtor’s car and three wheels were cutthey put sugar in the gas tank and walked on the roof.
Responsible for searching debtors’ assets
On the other hand, another of the accused again went to the debtor’s home to insist on the debt paymentwho was warned by the defendant that the client had a car that could be set on fire, and on the other hand, the second defendant also participated, who collaborated with the lender to locate the debtors’ property.
In this way, this Criminal Court of Cordoba sentenced the woman who managed the apartment dedicated to Prostitution in the Garden City to two years in prison for the offense of prostitution, the retired national police officer to six months in prison and a fine; as well as the five other accused to different fines for offenses of threats and minor damage.
Finally, the Ministry of the Interior opened a save to this retiree from the National Police after his conviction for these events, as ABC was able to verify.
