Luis Roldán
| Luis Roldán | |
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| Spanish Civil Guard | |
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In office 1986 – December 3, 1993 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
Luis Roldán Ibáñez August 16, 1943 Zaragoza, Spain |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Political party | Socialist Workers' Party |
| Alma mater | UNED (real), University of Saragossa |
Luis Roldán Ibáñez (Zaragoza, Spain, August 16, 1943) is a former Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politician known for being the director general of the Spanish Civil Guard when a big scandal of corruption arose in 1993. This case, along with the GAL case, greatly contributed to the defeat of the PSOE in the 1996 general election. Upon initiation of prosecution for his criminal activities, Luis Roldán escaped from Spain in 1994. He surrendered in 1995 at the airport in Bangkok. Between 1996 and 1998 he was tried in a court of Madrid. He was sentenced to 28 years in prison for embezzlement, bribery, tax evasion and fraud, the Supreme Court increased to 31 years. He was from February 1995 in the female prison of Brieva (Ávila) In 2005 he was allowed out of prison to work in an intermediate regime between the second and third degree.
He got a BA degree with Political Science and Sociology as majors at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia in early 2000s when serving a sentence for his crimes. But during his time as a PSOE politician and UGT trade-unionist he stated he had gotten a BSc (Industrial Engineering) by the University of Saragossa. Journalist research proved that this degree was a fake.
Between December 29, 1982 and October 31, 1986 he was Chief of the Government in Navarra. Then, he became the first civilian to command the Spanish Civil Guard. Under his direction women were hired for the first time at the Civil Guard. He created in 1991 the Maritime Service of the Civil Guard and enhanced the counterterrorism information services counterterrorism that obtained great success in the infiltration within the ETA band such as the detention of the head of the organization in Bidart on March 29, 1992.
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