A choose investigates alleged irregular bills in Jucil, the principle affiliation of civil guards | Spain | EUROtoday

New episode within the inside conflict that has shaken for the reason that finish of final 12 months the Professional Association Justice for the Civil Guard (Jucil). The head of the Court of Instruction quantity 3 of León, Beatriz Serrano Díez, has issued a automobile that orders to open earlier proceedings to analyze alleged financial irregularities inside this group. The Justice of the Peace’s resolution happens after final March 14, 5 former leaders of the Association filed a grievance wherein they accused the present basic secretary, Ernesto Vilariño, of “numerous irregularities that suggest an improper use of the funds of the association” for private bills. Jucil is almost all affiliation among the many civil guards after successful, in October 2020, the interior elections to the Civil Guard Council – collegiate organ wherein the representatives of the brokers and the administration take part to handle labor {and professional} points – with 15,070 votes and get six of the 16 positions reserved for skilled associations on this physique. In autumn, elections can be held once more.

In the grievance that has given rise to the judicial investigation, critics say that Vilariño allegedly used jucil cash for private bills similar to meals in eating places and lodging in motels, altered accounting data and hid details about the monetary assertion of the affiliation. The complainants, gathered on the Regene We Jucil platform, think about these details constituting crimes of improper appropriation, fraud, falsification of paperwork and unfair administration. Specifically, they accused him of “carrying out personal expenses with the association’s corporate card, imputing the same uncertain or non -justified concepts.” Among these disbursements, they detailed of their grievance that there have been “consumption in luxury establishments, purchases in stores not related to the activities of the association, and the use of personal services, such as public transport” made throughout a visit to Seville in October 2020 and that amounted to only over 500 euros. Vilariño and the present path deny irregularities and demand that they’ve commissioned an exterior audit to dismantle these accusations.

In the judicial decision, issued on March 28 and communicated on Monday to the events, Judge Beatriz Serrano factors out, nonetheless, that these details denounced “present characteristics that presume the possible existence of [un] Crime of fraud (all assumptions) “and that by not being” determined the nature and circumstances of such facts or the people who have intervened “proceed to initiate previous proceedings and practice” those essential. “Specifically, the Jucil Board of Directors of Jucil gives a month to“ provide the documentation that it deems timely in justification of their allegations and identify those who have knowledge or relationship with the facts.

Waiting for receiving this documentation, the judge – who has rejected for now practicing other proceedings requested by the complainants, such as the declaration of the Secretary General and several witnesses as well as collecting certain information from the Ministry of Interior – also agrees “the provisional dismissal and the archive of the present case” ready to obtain the documentation requested to determine then whether or not or to not proceed with the investigation.

After knowing the decision of the magistrate, the complainants have issued a statement in which they claim that the Board of Directors provide “the maximum collaboration with justice” and insist that they also provide them with “access to all relevant economic information, in compliance with the principle of transparency required by internal regulations and the will of the affiliates”. For its part, the current Board has issued another note in which it has not yet received the request of documentation from the Court and accuse the complainants of wanting to “damage the image of the association” through the “misrepresentation” of what is happening in the judicial causes open following the internal conflict. A spokesman adds in telephone conversation with this newspaper that the complaint has no livelihood and is a “revenge of a gaggle of former leaders.”

The decision of the Judge of León is a new episode of the war within Jucil has been brewing for a long time, but it was exacerbated after the resignation at the end of last November of which he was secretary of communication and face of the association before the media, Agustín Leal, supposedly by pressures of his companions of the executive. At the exit of Leal, he was also followed by the resignation of the association’s general coordinator in the Canary Islands and the cessations of some provincial leaders. All this led on February 3 in the dissemination, by critics, of a letter to the associates in which, in addition to the alleged accounting irregularities, the alleged politicization was denounced in the current direction of Jucil. The letter then described the situation of “unsustainable” and claimed “a deep regeneration and pressing measures that assure the status and good title of our group.”

That letter was answered by the Executive Committee of Jucil with complaints. The Association presented on February 28 a against several secretaries and former provincial secretaries for the alleged commission of the crimes of slander and serious insults and revelation of secrets. On that same date, Vilariño himself filed another against the same people who also accused an alleged crime of coercion. The latter has been admitted to process, according to sources close to the Secretary General. The current direction of the Association then made public a statement in which, in addition to remembering these legal measures, he said he would not allow “unfounded assaults” and showed his confidence that “justice will make clear the details and restore the honorability of the affiliation and its secretary basic.”

Since then, the Courts of León – metropolis wherein the affiliation is registered – have assumed the prominence within the inside battle. Before the choice recognized Monday, one other Justice of the Peace, on this case the pinnacle of the Court of Instruction #1 of the identical metropolis, took an announcement on April 10 to Vilariño to answer the lawsuit filed by critics for not having allow them to attend a gathering held in Madrid a month earlier than wherein they have been going to debate, exactly, points associated to Jucil accounts. Critics accused the secretary basic of getting pressed them and opening disciplinary recordsdata with suspension of their rights allegedly irregular to forestall their help. In addition, on April 24 Vilariño will declare in a 3rd courtroom for the grievance that filed in opposition to critics for accidents and slander.