What does a non-commissioned officer in the Civil Guard face?

1. The accused: the María Serrano brigade
2. The complainant: Major General Fernando Mora Moret
3. Corruption allegations at Seprona Seville
4. File of complaints and “retaliations” against Serrano
5. Oral trial and support from the Unified Association of Civil Guards
6. Contradictory positions in the current trial

The accused: the María Serrano brigade

The accused is Maria Serrano Brigade. This non-commissioned officer announced in social networks that he Monday December 15 and Tuesday December 16 The oral trial takes place before the first territorial military court for the complaint filed against her by a major general.

The complainant: Major General Fernando Mora Moret

The complainant is the Major General Fernando Mora Moret. He is a general well placed in the structure of the Civil Guard, he became Chief of Staff of the Civil Guardand now holds the position of general in chief of Zone Iª of the Civil Guardwhich corresponds to the Community of Madrid.

But the confrontation between General Fernando Mora and the María Serrano brigade comes from a Mora’s previous destination.

Being a colonel, the general was head of the command of the Civil Guard of Seville.

Corruption allegations at Seprona Seville

In 2023, the María Serrano brigade reported suspected internal corruption in the Civil Guard.

He assured that they were committing irregularities within the Nature Protection Service (Seprona) from the Seville Command, which was the unit where she served.

Among other irregularities, he highlighted a alleged illegal trade of products in Mercasevilla and an alleged conspiracy around recycling of vegetable oils.

File of complaints and “retaliations” against Serrano

All these complaints ended up being filed, among other things because the the possible crimes had prescribed.

Once the complaints were filed, the head of the Seville command at the time took action against the complainant. She pointed at him because he was supposed to have undercover agents who committed these alleged irregularities.

Blackberry accused Serrano of filing false complaints. He managed to pursue the complaint until the case ended in oral trialwhich was supposed to take place in 2024 but was delayed.

Oral trial and support from the Unified Association of Civil Guards

Maria Serranowhich in recent years has obtained the support of Unified Association of Civil Guardshe said in videos broadcast on social networks that the case against her is a reprisals for daring to denounce internal corruption in the Civil Guard.

He also stated that he had suffered destination changes And disciplinary filesand they even removed the professional specialty required to work at Seprona.

The non-commissioned officer recently emphasized, a few days before the oral trial which is being held these days in Madrid, that the Prosecutor’s Office in military uniform had removed the request for prison sentence For her, as she said, “because there is no crime”.

Contradictory positions in the current trial

But the complainant, General Mora, does not seem to have given up asking that the First territorial military court sentence María Serrano to one year in prison for the offense of false declaration against him.