Everyone knows the importance of ITV. This is the technical inspection that is mandatory in our country and that tries to verify that vehicles can circulate safely through a series of tests. However, even today there is great absenteeism and also people who do not do things correctly. The Civil Guard has captured a station that let cars pass in poor conditiona totally illegal action that involves a dozen people and has had fatal consequences.
Known internally as “Operation Mojita”, it has resulted in the arrest of eleven people and investigation of another five belonging to an ITV station located in Murcia. Among those involved are the technical director, inspectors and administrative staff; in addition to some workshops and regular clients. They are charged with crimes of document falsification, against road safety, membership in a criminal group and continued corruption between individuals. Also for reckless homicide Which is how this sad story began.
An accident on the A-33 highway was what laid the first stone of the investigation. In this disaster an eleven-month-old baby died and it was found to have been caused because the vehicle had serious technical deficiencies. Their tires were in bad conditionwhich led to the bursting of one of them and the subsequent loss of control of the car. However, on paper the MOT had been passed a few weeks before at the station that the Civil Guard targeted directly.
When they started investigating They realized they weren’t the only one. vehicle whose MOT had been unceremoniously passed despite the serious failures that call its safety into question. The result is that there was a criminal plot, for which fraudulently certified non-existent repairs and approved cars in poor condition. The most repeated cases were those over 20 years old, in which inspections were sometimes carried out in a matter of seconds and without checking essential elements. The manipulation of vehicles during the process and other practices that threatened road safety were also detected.
