Two Tenerife municipal police officers who fined foreign tourists and kept the money have been sent to prison

Two local police officers from Buenavista del Norte, Tenerife, have been sentenced to prison by court order for the crime of embezzlement of public funds. appropriate money from fines that they gave to foreign tourists and which were not processed.

During the searches, “several tens of thousands“euros, as well as “hundreds” of complaint forms imposed on foreign citizens that had not been processed and the effects related to the crimes investigated. The so-called “Operation Martyr” has compiled “a large and important documentation” that proves the crimes of the agents, who have not stopped committing them since”many years back”.

The investigation began more than four months ago, when irregularities were detected in these two agents, as reported by the newspaper El Día. head of this organization in Buenavista del Norte, the newspaper said.

Once all the evidence had been gathered, the Civil Guard arrested the two police officers and carried out several searches during which enough evidence was collected to issue the prison entry order.

The investigation is in the hands of the Organic Unit of the Judicial Police (UOPJ) of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife command, in collaboration with the Road Accident Investigation and Group (GIAT) of the Canary Islands road sector.