Gijón (EFE)
The two defendants were facing a request for sentences from the Prosecutor’s Office of 11 and 13 years in prison ahead of the trial that was scheduled this Wednesday in the Eighth Section of the Provincial Court.
However, the parties have reached an agreement whereby the defendants, after admitting their authorship, have accepted individual sentences of four years in prison for kidnapping and one year and nine months for the crime of forgery.
The attorney for the prosecution, Sara González, has explained that the recognition of the defendants entails a reduction in sentences, in which, in addition, it has been taken into account that both “completely compensated the victim.”
The lawyer has explained that the agreement “carries prison sentences for compliance” and has commented that both she and her client are “happy” with the result.
On March 5, 2020 in Pervera
The events occurred on March 5, 2020, when the victim arrived at the company’s warehouse owned by his brother and where he worked, dedicated to renting motorhomes, in the Pervera Industrial Estate (Carreño), and was approached by two hooded men.
After ascertaining his relationship with the businessman, the two men ordered him to accompany them and, in the face of his resistance, they handcuffed his ankles and wrists, tied his arms behind his back and put him in the trunk of a car with the one who went to the Massanassa Industrial Estate, in Valencia.
According to the prosecutor’s account assumed by the defendants, once there they left the victim attached to a ladder by one of the shackles that had been placed on his ankles, and which they later replaced with a chain, and there they kept him permanently under surveillance by two of them for five days.
However, under pressure from the Security Forces and Bodies, they told him that he was going to be released, after numerous threats that they would kill him and his family if he told anything or spoke to the Police.
After giving him 150 euros to take a bus back home, they put ties on his wrists and ankles and put him in a vehicle, in which they moved near Caudete (Albacete), where they released him without getting the booty for his ransom.
5 million euros
Prior to his release, the victim’s brother contacted the kidnappers who demanded 5 million euros, to be delivered in four days if he wanted to see him again, and they sent him two photographs.
A few days later they summoned him to a hotel in Las Rozas to deliver the ransom money, an appointment that did not take place because he was released. EFE