The Second Section of the Provincial Court of Madrid has sentenced Francisco Nicolás Gómez Iglesias, known as Little Nicolás, to four years and three months in prison for the so-called ‘Police Mafia case’.
As reported this Wednesday by the Madrid Court, Little Nicolás is considered responsible for a crime of discovery and disclosure of secrets, as well as the perpetrator of a crime of bribery in the so-called police mafia case, in which the Prosecutor’s Office asked him for up to 9 years and 9 months in jail.
On the other hand, the magistrates have agreed to acquit the young man of the crime of belonging to a criminal organization that the Public Ministry attributed to him.
The sentence has been announced almost a month and a half after the trial was seen for sentencing. In the last session, Gómez Iglesias stressed that it was his “last trial” and that inspector Rubén Eladio López, who was in charge of the investigation that was carried out against him, had denounced him “repeatedly” for “a manifest enmity” .
The Public Ministry accused Little Nicolás of providing several investigated vehicle license plates, telephone lines or identification numbers so that they —taking advantage of their status as agents— could access information and give it to them in exchange for promises and/or money.
The prosecutor assured in the trial that the young man was the “boss” of the two municipal police officers with whom he formed a criminal group that accessed databases. “The one who started, who was the head of all of them, was undoubtedly Mr. Gómez Iglesias,” he insisted.
With this, the young man has so far accumulated five sentences against him, which add up to a total of 8 years and 2 months in prison.
Little Nicolás is not the only one convicted by the Madrid Court. The magistrates have prosecuted the municipal police officer Jorge González Hormigos and the municipal agent Felipe Gallego Santos with 4 years and 3 months in prison. Both are accused of committing crimes of discovery and disclosure of secrets committed by a public official and passive bribery. The Prosecutor’s Office requested 8 years and 6 months for both.
Likewise, the civil guard Javier Sánchez López has been sentenced to 1 year and 6 months in prison for a crime of discovery and disclosure of secrets committed by a public official. Emilio García Grande has been fined 12 months at a rate of 10 euros a day as the perpetrator criminally responsible for a crime of violation of official secrets.
The only defendant acquitted by the court has been José Luis González Cervera, who has had all charges dropped for the crimes he was accused of.
