Luis Roldán

Luis Roldán Ibáñez (16 August 1943 – 24 March 2022) was a Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politician. He was the director general of the Civil Guard from 1986 until 1993. He was born in Zaragoza, Spain.

Roldán escaped from Spain in 1994 after being accused of fraud. 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. In 2005 he was allowed out of prison to work.^[1] in an intermediate regime between the second and third degree. ^[2]

Roldán died on 24 March 2022 in Zaragoza at the age of 78.^[3]

References

1. Hernández, J.A. (20 April 2005). "La Audiencia de Madrid permite a Roldán salir de la cárcel para trabajar". El País.
2. Colpisa (14 November 2008). "María Teresa Campos entrevista a Luis Roldán". Diario de Navarra.
3. Muere Luis Roldán, el director de la Guardia Civil que saqueó los fondos reservados (in Spanish)