The Sixth Section of the Provincial Court has definitively dismissed the complaint filed by the Seprona sergeant in Lanzarote, Gloria Moreno, against agent Miguel Ángel Padial, whom she accused of tipping off a poacher of shearwaters about an inspection to be carried out in Alegranza in 2013.
In the press conference that Moreno offered last Tuesday, she already confirmed that the complaint had been dismissed, although she stated that she was studying whether to appeal it. However, the order issued by the Provincial Court dismissing the case states that "no ordinary appeal can be filed" against it.
The case was already dismissed in June 2016 but, two years later, in September 2018, Gloria Moreno submitted a document requesting that it be reopened. In it, she alleged that "the Court, at the time, had not carried out any proceedings" and that "it had reinterpreted the police report that the Civil Guard handed over, accepting the investigation carried out as valid". In this regard, she added that in another proceeding against her, "statements had been made that indicatively confirmed the facts."
This request was denied by the Court, considering that "no data or novelty" was appreciated that justified the reopening of the proceedings. However, Gloria Moreno filed an appeal for reconsideration "insisting on the existence of sufficient evidence of the commission of a crime of revealing secrets." And she provided a recording in which a third party assured that agent Padial was "an informant."
"The terrain of conjectures, gossip is not abandoned"
Despite this, the instructor dismissed the appeal, understanding that what was intended was a "parallel investigation" to the one that was being followed in another process against Gloria Moreno herself, understanding that there was a full connection between one process and the other.
"The terrain of conjectures, gossip, and hearsay is never abandoned," the Sixth Section of the Provincial Court now points out, dismissing a new appeal by the Seprona sergeant, who insisted that the facts attributed to agent Padial be investigated.
"There is neither anyone who in the first person has been able to state in police or judicial headquarters that they have heard Miguel Ángel Padial making statements committing the acts attributed to him, nor is anyone alluded to. Not even within the body of the Civil Guard itself does it seem that any credibility was given to the statements made by third parties for the purposes of a hypothetical disciplinary responsibility of agent Padial, let alone would it be appropriate to do so in the context of a criminal investigation," the court concludes.
