A soldier is sentenced to three years and nine months in prison for selling more than 5,000 abortion pills

The judge of Square 1 of the Criminal Section of the Court of Instance of Ferrol has sentenced, after the agreement reached by the parties, three accused of selling a medication for abortive purposes. In the ruling, the judge indicates that the 5,040 pills obtained fraudulently could have brought them income of between 50,400 euros and 100,800 euros, since they charged between 10 and 20 euros for each pill.

In this way, one of them has been sentenced to three years and nine months in prison, as the perpetrator of a crime against public health and of a continuing crime of falsification of an official document committed by a private individual, in conjunction with a continuing crime of fraud, with the latter having the very qualified mitigating circumstance of reparation for the damage.

In addition, he must pay a fine of 2,400 euros. He has sentenced the other two defendants, as accomplices to the crime against public health, to one and a half and two years in prison, respectively, although both sentences are suspended for a period of two years, with the condition that they do not commit a crime within that period.

The main suspect admitted that he acted with the help of his partner and his brother, who offered the medication on internet advertising pages and through social networks. In addition, they made shipments from Narón to multiple locations throughout Spain, detecting about 660 shipments between February 2019 and June 2023.

The judge reports in the ruling that the convicted person, without the participation of the other two involved, acquired a total of 5,040 tablets between January 2019 and April 2023. Furthermore, he explains that, until January 2021, he managed to get several doctors to prescribe him the medication on up to 70 occasions, using the prescriptions provided by the Social Institute of the Armed Forces, although in some of those cases it was the convicted person himself who filled in the name of Cytotec in the prescriptions that the doctors previously signed for him, confident that he would use it given his status as an active military member of the Spanish Navy. As of February 2021, it fully covered another 56 prescriptions, using a fraudulently created seal and imitating a doctor's signature.