THE Internal Affairs Unit (UAI) of the National Police arrested the main inspector who heads the money laundering group of the Madrid Police Headquarters for his alleged links with different operations linked to the world of drug trafficking.
The chief inspector is called Óscar and was arrested with his partner. The arrest, according to the sources consulted, was hastened after the discovery, barely a week ago, of the largest cache of cocaine in history ever intercepted in Spain.
The news, advanced by Popular voiceThis is confirmed to EL ESPAÑOL by various sources from the fight against drug trafficking and the Judicial Police. This operation took place in port of Algeciras and the route was the most common for transporting large quantities of cocaine to the Iberian Peninsula: Ecuador-Spain. There were more than 13 tons of drugs hidden in banana crates, a multi-million dollar business with a lot of blood behind it.
This operation, in which, according to the sources consulted, the head of the Madrid Police Laundering Group was involved, was carried out by the national police in collaboration with the customs surveillance service of the tax administration. This is the second largest intervention in all of Europe (the largest in a single container) and one of the largest in the world.
The agents carried out five entries and searches in homes and offices in Madrid and Alicante, and one person was arrested, while the two managers of the importing company are being searched and arrested.
One of these entries took place in the police officer’s office. There, according to the sources consulted, a million euros. In their house in Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), they found 20 million hidden in a double bottom of the walls of the house, walled behind the walls of their house.
The operation
The operation to which it would be linked began with a container that would have set sail from the port of Guayaquil (Ecuador), from where it would go to Algeciras. The Ecuadorian exporter was listed in customs and police databases with a history of illicit trafficking. Upon arrival at the port of Algeciras, the container was inspected and discrepancies were detected between the declared cargo and the actual cargo, leading to the opening, which took place on October 14.
The contaminated container had a screen made of boxes loaded with bananas to hide the drugs. Behind this screen were a large number of boxes, identical to the previous ones, but inside which were hidden bricks of cocaine packaged to the exact size of these boxes.
Following this discovery, after the first procedure, five judicial searches were carried out by order of the Court of Instruction No. 3 of Algeciras – four in Alicante and the province, and one in Madrid -, with the intervention of abundant documentation which will be analyzed by the investigators. In addition, a woman, an associate of the company to which the shipment was sent, was arrested in Toledo, while the two managers of the importing company are on the run.
National Police officers and members of the Tax Administration’s Customs Surveillance Service took part in a historic operation that surpasses the largest seizures recorded in Spain to date. (9.4 tonnes in 2023 and 8.7 tonnes in 2018), and this was possible thanks to the close cooperation of the National Police of Ecuador with the Spanish authorities, since the participation of the National Directorate of Anti-Drug Investigations of the Ecuadorian Police made it possible to profile the shipment and alert the investigators in Spain. carry out an exhaustive analysis and inspection of the container.
The seized effects, as well as the detained person, were made available to the Court of Instruction number 3 of Algeciras.
