On June 7, 2023, the fragile house of cards that Viktoria had woven in Madrid collapsed. At the end of the afternoon, agents from Group XVIII of the Madrid Judicial Police Brigade and Group 32 of the Central Narcotics Brigade knocked on the door of his home. Her partner, Cesáreo, head of a cocaine production network, had just called her “his friend”. In March, Viktoria blew out her 32nd birthday candles in a cell at the Alcalá-Meco women’s prison, where she has been for a year and a half, accused of a crime against public health that she still has claimed to be unaware. this time.
His misfortune, a little more than 15 kilos of coke (partly reduced after purity analysis in the laboratory) and a small pistol with three cartridges that the National Police found that day at his home. An apartment that Cesáreo himself had left to her so as not to share the roof, after having led the young woman to leave her native Bulgaria in exchange for an alleged romantic relationship. Yesterday, the person under investigation reached a deal before being tried in Provincial Court, whereby he will be released today after accepting a two-year sentence.
The rest of those involved in the plot, six individuals (all men), did the same with spotty luck. Cesáreo was sentenced to eight years in prison and a fine of 800,000 euros for an offense against public health and possession of a prohibited weapon; Jairo and Jorge Enrique, co-authors, seven years and 800,000 euros; Juan Carlos, necessary cooperator, to four years and 654,000 euros; and Tito Julio, Juan Sebastián and Óscar Manuel, accomplices, to two years and 327,000 euros.
Viktoria’s release into the streets was something expected given that in the elaborate police investigation, with a multitude of surveillances, follow-ups and countless investigations that popped up on the fly, there is not a single only image in which the accused appears. But then, if during the more than seven months of investigation, she was not captured in any of the movements recorded by the agents, how is it possible that she ended up behind bars? His defense, led by lawyer Ignacio Estradé and his partner Patricia Marcos, is clear. A relationship of economic and emotional dependence, which simmers after making a “match” on Tinder: Viktoria, 31 years old on the day of her arrest; Cesáreo, 57 years old, 26 years older than her.
It is through the small screen that all risk models begin to reproduce themselves. The woman stopped having contact with her father when she was a child, which always led her to establish relationships with much older people, like the man Cesáreo, with whom she never stops chatting. He constantly flatters him that he has a better life, that he has a future as a couple… although 3,500 kilometers from his place of residence. To convince her, he goes to Bulgaria to meet her mother and aunt, a gesture through which he will soon get what he wants.
Contrary to any type of cliché, Viktoria has a high academic background, including a master’s degree in Ibero-American studies; and is processed in several languages. So your problem is not the head. It’s the heart. Indeed, once detained and questioned by her lawyer before the courts of Móstoles, she admitted to having been a victim of VioGén and testimony was deduced in favor of the Violence Against Women Court; a course ultimately abandoned due to his refusal to move forward.
Various tools for cooking cocaine that the National Police found during one of the searches carried out
Once settled in Madrid, the Bulgarian finds herself at the mercy of her new boyfriend: she only has sex when he wants it, and the same with the meager money he gives her to survive. His degree of economic dependence is such that he even sells his erotic videos on Skype. And all this, at the same time as National Police agents begin to monitor the steps of Cesáreo (a guy who says he focuses on “real estate matters”) and his acolytes. The reality, however, is very different. On June 24, 2023, the National Police sent a press release informing of the arrest of a famous “drug boss”, as part of an operation against the production and processing of cocaine.
A catchy title to attract the attention of the media, which has an entire drug trafficking network behind it, with two clandestine laboratories (a chalet in Villanueva de la Cañada and another in El Álamo), two floor-burrows (at Talavera de la Reina and a town in Toledo, Villarrubia de Santiago), 150 kilograms of precursors, 20 kilograms of cocaine ready for consumption, four firearms and numerous laboratory materials for cooking the medicine.
An anonymous email
The first investigations begin in October 2022, after a resident of the Villanueva de la Cañada villa sends an email to antidroga@policía.es, the email address that the National Corps has allowed to receive related complaints to drug trafficking. In the message, the sender warns of an unusual movement of people of South American origin, as well as a strong smell of chemicals and the presence of a van responsible for unloading the bottles.
A first sign that triggers the alarm among experts on the subject, aware that certain criminal organizations acquire large quantities of chemical substances and precursors, which they hide in clandestine laboratories and use to extract cocaine base, a prelude to the white powder which It will be sold on the street.
The investigation begins and little by little new characters and settings appear in the plot. Based on the checks carried out, officials confirm that all those investigated take security and counter-surveillance measures and do not carry out any professional activity. Some also have a history of drug trafficking and even the “famous” leader the police speak of in their note presents a European arrest warrant issued by the Italian authorities.
Viktoria is linked to a call in Bulgarian with her aunt, in which she discusses Cesáreo’s friendship with people who were allegedly arrested for various rackets. Looking the other way and lack of emotional intelligence did the rest: 17 months in prison and a Tinder “love” he will never forget.
