The Prosecutor’s Office requests for him 9 years and 9 months in prison for integration into a criminal organization and disclosure of secrets
MADRID, 5 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Francisco Nicolás Gómez Iglesias, known as “El Pequeño Nicolás”, is facing his fifth trial this week, this time accused in the so-called “police mafia case” of having accessed “on several occasions” in 2014 to “confidential information belonging to the Ministry of the Interior who worked in the police databases”, for which the Prosecutor’s Office asks for him 9 years and 9 months in prison.
The Provincial Court of Madrid will hold the first session of the trial tomorrow, Monday, and it is expected to last until February 13. The Prosecutor’s Office attributes an alleged crime of integration into a criminal group, a continued crime of discovery and disclosure of secrets and violation of secrets as an inducer and a crime of active bribery.
This will be the fifth trial faced by the young man, who has already been convicted in three other cases and acquitted in one. In total, he accumulates 8 years and 2 months in prison in sentences, but so far none of the resolutions is firm, because the defense of Gómez Iglesias has filed appeals before higher courts.
Within the framework of this procedure, the Public Ministry requests a sentence of 8 years and 6 months in prison for the municipal police officers Jorge González Hormigos and Felipe Gallego Santos. And he demands 2 years and 8 months in prison for the civil guard Francisco Javier Sánchez López. He also directs an accusation against the former Security coordinator of the Madrid City Council, Emilio García-Grande, whom he is demanding a fine of 4,500 euros for an alleged crime of violation of secrets.
According to the investigation carried out in the Madrid courts of Plaza de Castilla, the ‘modus operandi’ “was always the same”: Gómez Iglesias provided one or more of those investigated with vehicle registration plates, telephone lines or identification numbers .
“Thereupon, these, taking advantage of their status as agents of the Municipal Police Force of the Madrid City Council, proceeded to extract the required information from said bases and provided it to Francisco Nicolás in exchange for promises and economic remuneration,” said the judge when they process.
The Prosecutor’s Office maintains that the data related to the license plates were used in some cases by ‘El Pequeño Nicolás’ to contact the license plate holders, “whom he made believe that he was related to different agencies and authorities of the Public Administrations and offered them their help to make arrangements with them, with the sole purpose of obtaining money in exchange for an intermediation that, in reality, was fictitious”.
The Public Ministry assures that, in exchange for the information, the two officials of the Madrid Municipal Police who sit this week in the defendant’s dock obtained financial rewards.
According to the account contained in the indictment, the two municipal police officers and Gómez Iglesias came to create a WhatsApp group called “National Security Department”, through which they specified when the money for their collaboration would be distributed.
The Prosecutor’s Office indicates that they came to consult several car registration plates that in most cases turned out to be owned by businessmen. He also asserts that, at the same time, ‘El Pequeño Nicolás’ contacted a civil guard – also accused in the case – who also agreed to provide the identity of the owner of the vehicle with the license plate he had provided.
Likewise, the Public Ministry assures that Gómez Iglesias requested information via WhatsApp from the then Security and Emergency Coordinator of the Madrid City Council -against whom the accusation is also directed–. The man told Francisco Nicolás that the license plate he was asking about did not correspond to any City Hall vehicle.