The Civil Guard Traffic of Las Palmas has investigated a driving school teacher and two other people in Lanzarote for various criminal activities related to road safety, all of them linked to the use of fraudulent driving licenses.
On September 6, GIAT agents investigated two people of foreign nationality, V.M., 50 years old, and M.G., 38 years old, both residents of Playa Blanca (Yaiza), for requesting the exchange of driving licenses from Romania at the Local Traffic Headquarters of Arrecife.
Based on the principle of collaboration that the Traffic Group maintains with the DGT, and given the existence of certain anomalies in two driving licenses from Romania, the agents carried out the appropriate checks on the veracity of both licenses, based on the consultation with the Romanian authorities together with the expert report prepared by the Investigation and Analysis Group of the Traffic Group of the Civil Guard (GIAT), the existence of the falsehood in its entirety of the two documents could be accredited.
For all the above, the Civil Guard prepared the appropriate procedures for the investigation of the alleged perpetrators for a crime of documentary falsification, continuing this investigation in progress in order to identify and locate the possible perpetrators of the preparation and distribution of these false documents.
A driving school teacher who issued false certificates
Subsequently, on September 7, the components of the GIAT of the Traffic subsector of Las Palmas, in collaboration with their counterparts in Córdoba, investigated a person with the initials M.R.N., 42 years of age and of Spanish nationality, for the alleged authorship of a crime of documentary falsification by issuing a false certificate necessary to obtain the class A permit.
The investigation began in Córdoba as a result of a complaint, in which a person reported that he had obtained the class A driving license without having taken or passed the corresponding course.
Therefore, and after locating the alleged perpetrator working as a driving school teacher in Lanzarote, the investigators traveled with the aim of verifying the data and locating the person responsible for its issuance, carrying out the corresponding procedures for the indictment of a crime of documentary falsification.
Possible penalties
The Civil Guard points out that falsifications in official documents can carry penalties of between six months and three years of deprivation of liberty,
As for driving without authorization, it provides for penalties ranging from imprisonment of three to six months, a fine of twelve to twenty-four months or community service of thirty-one to ninety days.
