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Verdict upheld in Mijas police officers drug case

They had been found guilty of taking drugs from dealers to sell themselves

Á. F. / J. C.

Friday, 2 March 2018, 13:05

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The Supreme Court in Madrid has upheld the sentence for drug trafficking imposed by a Malaga court on five Local Police officers in Mijas. They had been found guilty of taking drugs from dealers to sell themselves.

The long-running case had to be tried twice after the first appearances in court were declared void over doubts over secret recordings used to incriminate the officers when they were first held as long ago as 2009.

At the second trial in Malaga, which also included legal action by Mijas council against the men, the officers were found guilty and sentenced to between five and four and a half years each.

Judges said that the men had abused their position, surprising drug dealers with a patrol car to force them to run off and leave the drugs which they then collected. The officers knew that if they were ever stopped with drugs they could falsely say it was part of a legitimate anti-drug operation. A private individual who helped hide the drugs had his sentence reduced.

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