Companies linked to Madrid’s money laundering police chief in the spotlight: he owned cryptocurrency assets

In total, the operation includes 15 detainees, all already in pre-trial detention. Only two of them are police officers: Oscar Sanchez and his wife. The rest, people directly or indirectly involved in drug trafficking without any connection with the State security agencies and forces.

Indeed, after the capture of the police commander and his partner, further arrests could not be made. Concretely, the agents are trying to find out the whereabouts of a couple who ran the business. Abadix fruitsdedicated to the importation of fruit and which would be linked to the network.

He Central Court of Instruction number 1 of the National Court directs the operation in which the agent is accused of the crimes of drug trafficking, corruption, money laundering, criminal organization and failure to prosecute the crimes.

It should be noted that the operation which precipitated the arrest of the head of Anti-money laundering police group in Madrid ended, at the end of October, with the second largest seizure of cocaine in the entire Europe; the largest reserve in a single container.

Inside Port of Algecirasthe National Police and the Customs Surveillance Service seized 13 tons of cocaine hidden among the crates of bananas imported by the inhabitants of Alicante Abadix fruits. The company’s advisers fled their villa in El Campello (Alicante) after emptying the two safes of the house after learning of the discovery of the enormous shipment of drugs, which arrived in the Bay of Algeciras by one of the usual routes for this type. of situations: Ecuador-Spain.

THE Internal Affairs Unit a few days later, he entered the house of the head of the fight against money laundering of the National Police. Concretely, he did it this week and discovered 20 million euros hidden in a false bottom of his house in Alcalá de Henares.

Similarly, investigators entered the agent’s office moments before and discovered another million euros.

Now, the broker’s cryptocurrency assets are in the spotlight. The same goes for companies linked to it, including those owned by relatives owning dozens of people. VTC license.

The investigation is also trying to date the start of the events. Sánchez had a low and unremarkable profile within the corps, but he had previously led the group 36 of the Drugs and Organized Crime Unit (Udyco)specialized in the fight against drug trafficking on the Internet. The central narcotics squad was in shock after what happened.

After his time at Udyco, he ended up in Madrid and handled cases known as Operation Titella, in which the television producer was involved Jose Luis Moreno.

High-end cars

What attracted the most attention in the operation were the images of high-end cars. They were not at the inspector’s home, but were found during another search carried out.

Among the cars were several BMW, like the M4, a 3 series or an XM. In addition, there was a Lamborghini Huracán Spider or motorcycles like the MV Agusta.

After four years of investigation, the police National Policein collaboration with those of Customs surveillancemanaged to lay siege to the criminal organization. What many officers did not expect was that the head of anti-money laundering would be present.