The First Section of the Provincial Court of Las Palmas will try next week the sergeant of Seprona in Lanzarote, Gloria Moreno, who faces a request for four years in prison for a crime of falsifying an official document. In addition, the Prosecutor's Office also requests that Moreno be sentenced to 3 years of disqualification from employment or public office and the payment of a fine of 3,600 euros
The trial will be held between October 22 and 25 and will take place in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. As for the facts, they date back to November 2015, when Sergeant Moreno sent a letter to the chief captain of the Civil Guard company in Costa Teguise denouncing alleged irregularities by a colleague and subordinate of hers in Seprona, whom she accused of having warned a poacher of shearwaters of an inspection that was going to be carried out in Alegranza.
Moreno's letter led to an internal investigation in the Civil Guard and also to judicial proceedings, but both ended up being dismissed after concluding that there were no "indications of the possible commission of the crime reported" by the sergeant. It was then that the affected party denounced Gloria Moreno, giving rise to this case against her.
An alleged warning to poachers
In her statement of qualification, the Prosecutor's Office maintains that the Seprona sergeant made those accusations against a colleague "knowing that her statements did not correspond to reality" and that they were "false statements."
For her part, Moreno claimed that it was a collaborator of the Doñana Biological Station who gave her the warning that a tip-off had occurred. According to the sergeant's version, this scientist told her that one of the poachers -who was later denounced by Seprona- told him that he had received a call from a civil guard, warning him of the action that was going to be carried out in Alegranza.
In the letter she presented to the captain, the sergeant stated that she had asked the agent if he knew this person and that he told her that yes, that they were "friends for a long time", but that he "did not remember" if he had called him or not", and that "on some occasion he had told him that one day they were going to get a scare and they were going to be caught", but that he "did not call to warn him".
After the investigation that was carried out on these facts, the Prosecutor's Office concludes that the sergeant included false statements in her complaint "knowingly", so now she accuses her of document forgery.
