The judge sends the former head of the Local Police of Calvià to the bench for corruption

The Court of Instruction number 12 of Palma takes another step to send to trial one of the alleged plots of police corruption investigated for years in the macrocause promoted by the Balearic Prosecutor's Office.

For more details, it is the part of the summary that investigated five police officers in the municipality of Calvià for alleged collection of bribes and other crimes related to their functions, such as extortion of certain nightlife in Magaluf. Among those investigated, in addition to two businessmen of the night, there are two agents who were police officers at the time of the investigation of the facts, more than five years ago. This is the former head of the Calvianera Municipal Police, Jose Antonio Navarro, and the former agent and then responsible for the Local Police of Marratxí, Antonio Ledesma.

Instructor Judge Enrique Morell, at the request of the Prosecutor's Office, has issued an order summarizing the crime and focuses the charges for which he believes they should be tried. Accusations that the former police officers have denied and that for the time being have not been tried.

In its resolution, the investigating judge concludes that "from what has been acted upon in the case, very serious indications are given that there are business interests on the part of local police officers who worked or had worked in Calvià in matters concurrent with the performance of their duties and in those who intervened because of their position. " That is, they would have been charging night business for private services such as private security or management services, which, the judge points out, "there is no doubt that it implies 'per se' an act of intimidation, coercion or your extortion case. " Not surprisingly, "hardly an entrepreneur who suggests the convenience or opportunity to hire one or the other, will be able to freely choose whether or not to accept it when the circumstance occurs that the bidding agent or some of his colleagues are precisely the that in the future they can submit it to an inspection, and raise in their case a sanctioning act ".

Specifically, Navarro and Ledesma, notes the court ruling issued today, "jointly intervened in labor hiring and payroll of workers in establishments" of groups dedicated to nightlife. "In short, clear direct connections between economic and business interests would have been created (not subject to inspections, inspections vitiated, falsified, and unjustified, prior notice of their performance, etc.), to the detriment of the requirements of the Law, of the fight against corruption, market freedom, and citizens' equality. " In exchange for "periodic money deliveries", and always presumably, they were treated favorably in complaints and slapping in inspections.

The judge, following the criteria of the Prosecutor's Office, closes the judicial investigation phase in this way and considers that there are indications for them to be put on trial for bribery, prevarication, extortion, threats, coercion, influence peddling, use of privileged information, omission of the duty to prosecute crimes, and crime against public health. The accusatory reports remain to be known.

It should be remembered that Navarro became imprisoned on a preventive basis for these facts but his situation was revoked by the Provincial Court, which ordered his release while there was no trial.

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