THE Internal Affairs Unit (IAU) of the National Police arrested the chief inspector who heads the Economic Crimes Group from the Madrid police headquarters for his alleged links with several operations linked to the world of drug trafficking and in particular with the largest cache of cocaine seized in Spain. The police found 20 million euros hidden between the partitions of his home in Villalbilla (Madrid) and was sent to temporary prison. His wife, also a police officer assigned to the police station, was arrested at the same time as the police commander. Alcalá de Henares.
Last Tuesday, at midnight sharp, a police delegation led by agents from the Internal Affairs Unit, police officers from the Police Intervention Unit (UIP) and agents from the GOIT arrived at the chalet of the head of the Delinquency Group Economic of Madrid and started. a long inscription. GOIT officers, experts in careful searches and secure openings, demolished several parts of the house.
The arrested police commander and his wife, also a member of the National Police and stationed in Alcalá de Henares, attended the search.
Expert dogs for finding money
However, it was the dogs trained to find hidden money who found the place where the money was hidden, between the partitions of the house, up to 20 million euros in wrapped notes were seized. It is a paradox to find such loot in the house of the Madrid police chief, an expert in the fight against money laundering.
The arrests are linked to the interception of the largest cache of cocaine seized by the national police in Spain: a total of 13 tons of cocaine hidden in a fruit container that arrived at the port of Algeciras (Cádiz) was sent. to the provisional arrest by order of the Central Investigation Court number 1 of the National Court, which decreed the secrecy of the trial in the case currently under investigation for offenses of membership in a criminal organization and drug trafficking.
