Two businessmen noted that local police in Torrevieja asked them for bribes

Second session of the trial of four local police officers from Torrevieja and two others accused of attempting to bribe businessmen from the municipality of Torrevieja in exchange for money police immunity and to set aside the complaints, he took statements from two merchants who realized that one of the defendants had asked them for money. They further confirmed that they had recorded two conversations with this defendant in which bribery was discussed. None of these businessmen included the other three local police officers on trial.

One of the two entrepreneurs, Chinese citizen owner and his wife A restaurant in Punta Prima and gave assurances before the public jury of the local police officer who pleaded guilty on the first day of the trial. Came to ask for up to 40,000 euros an amount that is reduced initially, then at a second meeting.

This hotel merchant, at the trial at the Trial at Elche, local police that records of administrative complaints were kept and the agent assured him that “if he gives the money, they won’t close the restaurant”. The police interview was through a friend of the jeweler and he said he could help him, but this defendant “didn’t say anything at the meeting” and even later told him “if he had everything”. order he didn’t have to pay any”.

There was another meeting later, and he recorded the conversation in which he told him that “with 40,000 euros, the problems could be solved”. According to this witness, the amount was reduced to between 8,000 and 6,000 euros after he was told he did not have 40,000 euros. However, he noted He didn’t pay her a single euro.

The Chinese businessman made it clear that this was only one of the four agents who came to ask him for money in return for canceling the complaints made by his colleagues after the restaurant’s inspection. After claiming that the agent acted this way because of his drug addiction, this trader replied to the prosecutor’s questions that he did not realize that the agent was affected by his drug use when he sought a bribe.

The owner of another Chinese restaurant in Torrevieja was made to intervene as an interpreter at one of his meetings, at an oral hearing the police “first asked for 40,000 euros and then it fell to 15,000 and 8,000».

On your behalf, a Serbian businessman He also pointed to the same local police officer as the author of the bribery attempt, who had testified via video conference, and explained that this defendant had also recorded a conversation in which he asked for money. didn’t pay anything, but they did not even file a complaint after an inspection of a playground for which his wife was listed as responsible. His wife said that the two policemen who inspected the workplace «aggressive and hostile», but said that they did not impose any sanctions.

The Serbian businessman reported that two days after the inspection, a citizen appeared to him and said that he had seen the Local Police at work and offered to help him with an agent he knew from the gym. The witness stated that he had met with the police officer and after explaining this to him. They can fined 20.000 euros, they wanted 5.000 euros in exchange for protection and never again have a problem with your facilities or your vehicle. However, this businessman also never paid, pretending to only give him 2,000 euros, and recorded the conversation.

On the other hand, the owner of a car trading company in Torrevieja, who was accused in the case, declared at the hearing that he had paid the local police twice, who pleaded guilty in the case. He stated that he had problems twice, and each time he paid one thousand euros to one of the four local police officers on trial, without any receipts.

The civil guard investigating the case gave a statement this Tuesday afternoon, and for this Wednesday local police chief from Torrevieja.

Source: Informacion

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