One year in prison for the former deputy operational director of the Police who leaked information about a son of Pujol

The Superior Court of Justice of Madrid (TSJM) has partially revoked the judgment of the Provincial Court that two years ago acquitted Eugenio Pino, who was the deputy operational director (DAO) of the National Police until 2016, for revealing compromising information about Jordi Pujol Ferrusola, first son of the former president of Catalonia.

One year in prison for the former deputy operational director of the Police who leaked information about a son of Pujol

The Superior Court of Justice of Madrid (TSJM) has partially revoked the judgment of the Provincial Court that two years ago acquitted Eugenio Pino, who was the deputy operational director (DAO) of the National Police until 2016, for revealing compromising information about Jordi Pujol Ferrusola, first son of the former president of Catalonia.

Pujol appealed that 2020 acquittal sentence before the TSJM, whose Civil and Criminal Chamber agrees with him in part with regard to the former operational deputy director, since it maintains the acquittal for the other person involved, chief inspector Bonifacio Díez. The Madrid court now sentences Pino, retired since 2016, to one year in prison for the crime of revealing secrets and a fine of 7,200 euros, in addition to another 2,000 that Pujol himself must pay as civil liability.

The TSJM understands, unlike the Madrid Provincial Court, that the then DAO did commit a crime of revealing secrets when it provided the National Intelligence Center (CNI), the Economic and Fiscal Crime Unit (UDEF) and the Investigating Court Number 5 of the National Court a 'pendrive' with information about Pujol Ferrusola and his businesses between 1996 and 2002 without warning "at any time to the judicial authority of the illicit origin of the evidence," says the sentence.

The TSJM magistrates point out that "due to his status as a public official, where he held a very high level", Eugenio Pino "should have been subject" to what the law establishes. And they add that, "given that he was aware of the illicit origin of the data and documentation" of that 'pendrive' on Pujol Ferrusola, he should have "refrained from giving it to anyone under any conditions", such as organizations that did not participate in the legal case in which the eldest son of the former Catalan president was immersed due to different irregularities.

The sentence, which is dated last day 13 and which has been known this Friday, can be appealed before the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court within five days.


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