The First Section of the Provincial Court of the Balearic Islands has sentenced the former general director of Citizen Security of the Palma City Council Enrique Calvo to nine months in prison for a crime of revealing secrets and considers him solely responsible for the leak of the questions of a opposition to access the Local Police. He must pay a fee of 13,500 euros.
The Court has declared innocent the rest of the accused, the police leadership of the Palma City Council during the mandate of Mateo Isern (PP) as mayor. Furthermore, the Court has acquitted the only accused of the crime of continued prevarication for which he was definitively charged. The ruling considers it proven that Calvo sent the questions and answers for the opposition exam.
He does not clarify how they came into his possession, but states that he obtained this information due to his position as Director General of Security. The Court indicates that Calvo had participated in the procedures prior to the holding of the oppositions, which is why he considers that there is no other alternative explanation “regarding the fact that he would have been able to access them independently of the position he held.”
The Court frees two of the agents who were also accused of revealing secrets due to lack of evidence. The judges assure that sufficient evidence has been conducted to exonerate the rest of the accused, among whom were the former head of the Local Police, Antoni Vera, Commissioner Rafael Estarellas and the two agents accused of receiving the questions, Santiago Adrover and Tomás. More are acquitted.
The sentence has a dissenting vote, from one of the judges of the Court who partially disagrees with the rest and considers that all the accused should be acquitted due to lack of evidence. The judge who cast the dissenting opinion also considers that two of the agents should be acquitted due to lack of evidence and not due to lack of fit into the criminal offense. The ruling concludes that Calvo was the only one who helped leak the exemptions. “A series of interrelated indications are proven that lead to affirming the factual account that we consider proven,” the Court notes.
The case began in 2014, during Mateo Isern’s Mayor’s Office in Palma, due to suspicions that rigging had been attempted in the oppositions to the Palma Local Police. The entire police leadership at the time was under suspicion, but they have finally been acquitted.
