A popular jury has found a lieutenant of the Civil Guard guilty in court in Seville for collaborating with a drug trafficking network and organizing the theft of several dozen bales of hashish from the headquarters of the armed institute in the Andalusian capital.
The verdict, read this Friday by the jury, considers Raúl P.M, who was head of the Citizen Security Unit, guilty of the crimes of revealing secrets, bribery, drug trafficking and theft, for which the Prosecutor’s Office is asking for 14 years. and four months in prison.
In addition, the other two people tried in this case have been found guilty: José María C., the intermediary between the civil guard and the drug traffickers, for whom the prosecutor requests a sentence of ten years and four months in prison and a fine of three millions; and his cousin Roberto O., for whom he asks for six years and four months and the same fine.
The jury, in a unanimous verdict, considered it proven that the lieutenant had access, although limited, to a series of data that allowed him to have privileged information and that he had contact with a criminal organization dedicated to drug trafficking.
He gave these organizations information about Civil Guard operations against drug trafficking in exchange for money and even contacted an “undercover agent” to obtain more information and who was the one who alerted them to the lieutenant’s behavior.
On August 7, 2020, following the information provided to them by Raúl P.M, the other two defendants stole around thirty bales of hashish stored in a container at the Montequinto Command and replaced them with packages of sand with a similar appearance, although they were intercepted on the road minutes later by a Civil Guard patrol.
The stolen drugs would have fetched a price of around 1.5 million euros on the black market.
José María C. confessed the facts at trial and in his initial statement before the Civil Guard, as did the other defendant, who acknowledged his guilt and showed remorse.
During the trial, the Prosecutor’s Office based its accusation against the Civil Guard lieutenant on the testimony of the undercover agent, while Raúl P.M., who considered himself a “scapegoat,” declared that this agent was his “personal reference” and that he could be involved in “corrupt them.”
The lieutenant has also been found guilty of an attempted theft of 100,000 euros hidden in a car seized by the Civil Guard, which the other two defendants searched, although without finding the money inside.
