The Supreme Court has ordered a new sentence against a commander of the Air Force for his alleged responsibility in the existence of a Box B in the Getafe Air Barracks (Madrid), but acquits two colonels because the investigation of the case was done behind their backs.
The case began in 2012 when the Territorial Military Court number 12 of Madrid opened preliminary proceedings against the commander, then captain and head of the Quartermaster Section of the barracks, in relation to some settlements at the air base.
Two years later, the judge recused herself from the Central Military Court No. 1, which charged two colonels once three auditors observed signs of embezzlement, tax fraud or falsification of public documents, as the newspaper revealed. The country.
The judge prosecuted the commander, whom he accused of not having deposited into the treasury the funds collected for the use of accommodation, kitchen and cafeteria of the barracks, which went to a box B with which Expenses such as the celebration of the Virgin of Loreto were paidpatron saint of the Air Force, and an unofficial dinner with other senior officers.
According to the newspaper, the dinner was organized with the other defendants, head of the base and the head of the Economic-Administrative Section, although the judge exonerated them since he saw no crime but an accounting irregularity in their actions, until later the Central Military Court ordered that they also be prosecuted.