The Supreme Court has become known as Little Nicholas. The Criminal Chamber has confirmed the sentence imposed on him by the Provincial Court of Madrid as and as the author of a crime of active bribery, for plotting an illegal plot to obtain confidential information from police databases. However, the high court has agreed to apply a mitigating circumstance of undue delays that the defense claimed and has reduced the sentence of four years and three months in prison that the Madrid Court decreed to two years and one month in prison, which opens the door for the young man to avoid going to prison, since none of the sentences imposed for a crime are longer than two years. The decision will have to be made by the Provincial Court of Madrid.
Gómez Iglesias, who is about to turn 32, already had two other previous final sentences of the four that the Provincial Court had imposed on him: one year and nine months in prison for falsifying the DNI so that a friend could appear for him in the Selectivity in 2012; and two years for posing as a CNI envoy to a businessman with whom he intended to do business. The Supreme Court acquitted him of the third conviction that it reviewed, related to the trip to Ribadeo (Lugo) in which the young man made it believe that he was traveling in a Royal delegation to meet with the mayor.
With the sentence now handed down by the high court, Little Nicolás has already accumulated sentences totaling five years, ten months and 15 days in prison, so it will be the Madrid Court, which tried the young man, that will have to decide whether to order his entry into prison.
The defense of Little Nicolás, carried out by the lawyer Juan Carlos Navarro, has received with satisfaction the new resolution of the Supreme Court, since it considers that it opens the door for him to avoid entering prison, reports JJ Galvez. According to defense sources, they will now pay the fine imposed and go to the Provincial Court of Madrid, which convicted him in the first instance, to request that the prison sentence be suspended.
In the ruling notified this Thursday, the Supreme Court considers Gómez Iglesias the author of a crime of active bribery and inducing another of revelation of secrets for launching a plot to obtain confidential information from police databases with the aim of “obtaining parallel income and other perks related to the social and political environments that he frequented.”
The judges also consider it proven that the young man had the help of agents from the Madrid Municipal Police to set up this illegal network and the Supreme Court confirms the sentences imposed on these two police officers for revealing secrets and passive bribery. But the court also reduces the sentences by half, leaving the punishment at two years, one month and 15 days. It is not the first time that the high court has reduced the sentences that the Provincial Court had previously imposed on Gómez Iglesias and other defendants in their cases. On this occasion, the court reduces the punishment by applying the mitigating circumstance of undue delays in the category of “very qualified” instead of “simple”, as established by the Court.
The magistrates have acquitted a civil guard assigned to the Royal Family of the crime of revealing secrets for which he had been sentenced to 15 months in prison.
