Case One

valobasha99 · Dołączył: 29 Lis 2023 Posty: 1

Luis Roldán, former director of Benemérita, was the first civilian to hold the position. It was under that responsibility that Roldán began his career of corruption that led him to flee in 1994. He surrendered to the Spanish Justice eleven months later and was sentenced to 31 years in prison in 1999. In 2010, after fifteen years in prison, Roldán left the Zuera penitentiary center (Zaragoza). Of the fortune amassed by the director of the Civil Guard, only 8.7% has been recovered.

Luis Roldán was born in Zaragoza in 1943 , a municipality where he would die 78 years later, after several weeks admitted to the San Juan de Dios hospital , as reported by El Heraldo de Aragón. He graduated in Political Science and Sociology Special Data from the UNED , although he added to his resume by stating that he was an engineer and economist, which was denied by Diario 16. At the age of 33, Roldán joined the PSOE, three years later (1979) he was appointed Councilor. of the Zaragoza City Council and just six years after his formal entry into the party, in 1982, he became Delegate of the Government of Spain in Navarra.

His last position in public life was as general director of the Civil Guard. He was appointed to this position in November 1986 , becoming the first civilian to hold this worthy position. His stay at the civil institute is full of lights and shadows. He accelerated the process of modernization of the institution, with the entry of women into the force and carried out a program to improve the barracks houses , among others. Meanwhile, he illegally benefited from commissions for the awarding of these reforms, stole money from the reserved funds of the Civil Guard and looted money from the Printing-School of the Pro Orphans Association of the Civil Guard.

Luís Roldán was Councilor of the Zaragoza City Council, Government Delegate in Navarra and General Director of the Civil Guard, the latter being the position for which he is most remembered for his corruption cases.

In the early 90's the decline of Roldán's skyrocketing professional career began. Everything seemed like he would even succeed the then Minister of the Interior, Jose Luís Corcuera. In 1993, the Zaragoza native's immaculate professional career was splashed in the first news of Diario 16. The excessive growth of the assets of the general director of the Civil Guard set off alarm bells. At the end of that year he was already dismissed from his position and at the beginning of '94 the Commission of Investigation regarding his management was approved. His fall was as precipitous as his rise. In May of that year, the magazine I nterviú published on the cover: “Luis Roldán in an orgy with naked women.” By then Roldán had already starred in his first film: The Escape.

On April 23, 1994, the socialist suspended from militancy did not appear at the 16th investigative court in Madrid, so an arrest warrant was issued against him. To the surprise of Spain, the top leader of the Civil Guard had fled from Justice. Eleven months later he was detained at Bangkok International Airport. He would be judged by the National Court to 27 years in prison for embezzlement, bribery, fraud and falsification against the Public Treasury. The sentence was increased to 31 years in 1999. The man from Zaragoza was imprisoned in Zuera prison until 2010.