The Treasury official who manipulated the statements agrees to lose his job and pay back the money, but won’t go to jail

There are defeats that are clearly victories, and an IRS official on trial in a Santiago provincial court for manipulating statements to keep money could be more than happy with his time in the dock. The prosecutor’s office asked him for almost 13 years in prison, and finally he will not go to prison thanks to the agreement with the state ministry and the state attorney’s office, which was not easy. It is not surprising that the details of the agreement itself were boiled for almost three hours in the corridors of the courts in Compostela. The accused pleaded guilty. he lost his job and will have to pay back all the money, but they extraordinarily revoked his sentence of just over four years in prison. He left the room with a face of relief and that was no less.

Before the trial, the former official returned the withheld 26,547 euros and promised to return 7,806 euros of interest in monthly installments of 300 euros. This allowed mitigation to be applied damage repairwhich together with that of unjustified delay they made a judicial miracle that the defendant who was threatened with almost 13 years of imprisonment does not enter prison and that the final sentence exceeds, and doubles, the two years that were set as the limit for avoiding prison for unpunished criminals.

In addition, the Prosecutor’s Office reduced the extended criminal offense of fraud for which another of frivolous fraud, in media competition with another due to falsification of commercial and public documents. The seven years in prison that the defendants originally requested was reduced to a sentence of one year and one month and two fines of 5,040 and 360 euros. for from money laundering The reduction was almost complete, as the first five years were reduced to two months and 29 days, which will be replaced by community service, and he will also have to pay another fine of 5,681 euros.

The third crime he was charged with was for five cases of unauthorized access to the information system by an official, which is why the Prosecutor’s Office asked him for eleven months in prison, which were finally replaced by the loss of his position as a civil servant.

In order to benefit from extraordinary suspension of sentence prison, the defendant will not be able to commit the crime again within four years, he will have to pay EUR 7,806 in interest and two fines of EUR 5,618 and EUR 360 within two years, as well as 190 days in prison. of work for the community and also had to agree to pay what the injured parties demanded as civil liability. In case of violation of any of these points, he would end up in prison.

Already convicted worked as an IT specialist in the delegation of Santiago of the Tax Administration, located in Salgueiriños, when he created a false identity with which he opened two bank accounts in October 2013. Using this false identity and his status as an employee of the State Treasury, he accessed the tax files of two individuals and a company Uncisa Buildings and infrastructure, Editorial Compostela and Santiago South Galiciaachieving returns in the total amount of 11,900 euros, which he registered in his name.

After this money was illegally obtained, he laundered it through constant withdrawals and transfers to other bank accounts and also used the identity of a colleague of work to apply for two loans in the total amount of 33,500 euros. As there was an agreement with the state attorney’s office, he did not have to justify or apologize for his actions in front of the court, he only limited himself to the laconic answer “yes, I agree” when the judges asked him if he accepted the sentences imposed on him.