The Provincial Court of Alicante has sentenced a civil guard assigned to the Organic Unit of the Judicial Police of the Alicante Command to a five-month prison sentence who spent 9,000 euros of which he seized during an operation in a game room. anti-drug.
The sentence was handed down after the parties reached an agreement. The accused admitted the facts, pleaded guilty to the crime of embezzlement of public funds with the incomplete exonerating circumstance of anomaly or psychological alteration, and accepted the sentence requested by the Public Prosecutor's Office.
In addition to the prison sentence, the Court has imposed on the convicted person a special disqualification of ten months from employment or public office and the obligation to compensate the 9,000 euros defrauded from the General Directorate of the Civil Guard, an amount that had already been recorded in a judicial bank account.
The events occurred on August 4, 2020, during an anti-drug operation directed by an Alicante Investigative Court that led the prisoner and a colleague of his from the Civil Guard to travel to the city of Molina de Segura, in Murcia, to carry out a visual inspection on a truck with a Portuguese license plate.
During the search, the agents seized 12 bags containing marijuana and 9,000 euros in 20 and 50 bills. The convicted person kept these seized effects in custody until he had to make them available to the court that was investigating the facts. .
However, according to the sentence, around 2:00 in the morning on August 5 and until 12:00 of the same day, the guard spent all the money betting on roulette in a gambling hall in Alicante.
The judicial resolution also declares it proven that the convicted person suffers from an alteration in impulse control due to gambling addiction that partially affected his imputability at the time of the events.
The sentence, which also establishes the suspension of the custodial sentence for a period of two years, is not final and can be appealed before the Civil and Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community.
