A police officer is sentenced in Alicante for giving information to a criminal with whom he had a romantic relationship

ALICANTE, 9 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The eleventh section of the Provincial Court of Alicante, with headquarters displaced in Elche, has sentenced a woman, an agent of the National Police Corps, to one year in prison for giving information to a criminal with whom she had a sentimental relationship and for receiving 7,500 euros in a checking account from the fraudulent sale of vehicles in Italy.

As stated in the sentence, provided by the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community (TSJCV), the woman will also serve two years and three months of disqualification for public office or employment and will pay a fine of 3,840 euros as the author of the crimes of money laundering and disclosure of secrets.

The sentence declares it proven that the official, assigned to the Elche Judicial Police unit, violated the duty of secrecy and secrecy to which she was bound by her position and made inquiries in police databases about a criminal with whom she had a sentimental relationship. and its criminal environment.

These consultations took place between April 2019 and December 2020 and the information provided by the defendant was used by the recipients "to avoid police and judicial persecution regarding various criminal offenses that they were perpetrating," the magistrates point out in the resolution.

Specifically, the prisoner's boyfriend was able to find out that a court had intervened three of his mobile phones in the framework of an investigation for a crime of robbery with force, as well as the data of a camouflaged police car, which frustrated that research.

The court has also declared proven that the police received in June 2019, in a checking account of its exclusive ownership, 7,500 euros from the fraudulent sale of vehicles in Italy, knowing its criminal origin.

However, the Court has acquitted the defendant of a crime of omission of the duty to prosecute crimes, understanding that it has not been proven that she witnessed in her home how her sentimental partner and other individuals manufactured narcotic substances.

The sentence can be appealed before the Civil and Criminal Chamber of the TSJCV.