The Internal Affairs Unit (UAI) and the Central UDYCO of the National Police have located in Dubai part of the enormous sum of money generated by the drug trafficking network to which the head of money laundering of the National Police of Madrid belonged, Oscar Sanchez Gilwho found 20 million euros stuck in his house.
This is confirmed to EL ESPAÑOL by investigative sources, who fear that the investigations will be prolonged and hampered by the usual lack of collaboration from the authorities of the financial capital of the United Arab Emirates.
As this newspaper has already revealed, this metropolisAnd has become in recent years a criminal haven and big bosses in the world of drug trafficking. The organizations that run some of them operate in Spain, while the bosses hide in this luxurious Persian Gulf city.
This is one of the avenues towards which the police investigations of the investigation ordered by the Central Investigating Court number 1 of the National Tribunal and the Special Anti-Drug Prosecutor’s Office are moving. In recent years, Dubai has been the refuge of mafia bosses like the dreaded Balkan Cartelwhich today dominates drug trafficking entering Europe. And this is where we suspect that part of the money is, as well as part of the people investigated not located by the authorities.
It is this organization which is suspected of being behind the loading of 13 tonnes of cocaine which precipitated the fall of Madrid’s chief money laundering inspector, who for years had been facilitating the entry of large drug shipments into the peninsula. He was not a police officer working for drug dealers. He was another drug trafficker within the mafia structure, and that is why he became a priority target for his colleagues.
Snitches and corporations
Fourteen other people fell with him, including his wife, Noelia RP and her sister-in-law Yolanda RP The wife of the main inspector was also an agent of the National Police. She was specifically assigned to the Alcalá de Henares Judicial Police Unit. According to police experts in the fight against drug trafficking, two episodes featuring this woman from years ago now acquire new relevance.
Still according to these sources, The detainee appeared twice and without notice during two police searches in anti-drug operations in which she did not participate, trying to paralyze them or slow them down. “He appeared in the register, without anyone saying anything to him,” these sources detail, regarding the operations that took place over the last 5 years.
Sánchez Gil and his wife, due to their judicial police status, had access to the databases containing the most sensitive investigations carried out within the Corps. Databases such as CITCO and others like GATI, used by the police and civil guard. This access to such relevant information, underline the sources consulted, would be an important value from which the criminal organizations which hired them would benefit.
The woman and her sister Yolanda, sister-in-law of Madrid’s chief anti-money laundering inspector, are in prison, given the scale of the crimes they allegedly committed, in light of the evidence available to the court judge. Francisco de Jorge National Court. According to data from the Commercial Register, consulted by this newspaper, Sister-in-law owns four different companies in her name whose accounts and movements are monitored by Internal Affairs and UDYCO.
The first of the corporate structures detected by investigators in the name of the sister-in-law is located in Vallecas. According to data from the Commercial Register, the activity of this company is dedicated to “the holding of securities and shares of companies, national or foreign, as well as the control and direction of their participations in these companies”.
Operation against a clan of drug lords in Dubai.
The second would be dedicated to “vehicle rental with or without driver”and this year received three transport subsidies from the National Tax Administration Agency with a total value of 8,900 euros. It is this company belonging to his wife’s sister that the police point the finger at when they point out that Sánchez Gil used it to launder part of his immense fortune with an immense fleet of VTCs. The last balance sheet which includes it dates from 2018, when it obtained 218,000 euros in turnover.
The third of the companies in the name of the sister-in-law is domiciled in a private apartment in a neighborhood south of Madrid and is dedicated to “hunting, animal capture and related services”. According to the latest accounts presented, those for 2022, That year, he earned more than 700,000 euros.
The fourth, finally, is a so-called advertising agency that the sister-in-law created in 2022. Its headquarters is an apartment in Fuenlabrada. Researchers know the societies of the other characters in the plot The inmates also increased their sales exponentially over the years the organization operated.
Internal pressure
As revealed by EL ESPAÑOL, for months the department headed by Fernando Grande-Marlaska press to the authorities of the emirate to increase police collaboration, which has not always been the case in recent years. This pressure is the result of several operations that the National Police and the Civil Guard have kept open throughout 2024.
Both UDYCO (Drugs and Organized Crime Unit) of the National Police as Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard They have carried out specific operations in recent years with arrests in this city. But experts believe that collaboration is not enough and that Dubai must intensify control of those who operate, settle and take refuge within its borders.
In summary, the sources consulted highlight: “So that they don’t protect drug traffickers”. Additionally, Europol, the police agency that brings together police forces across the EU, has compiled a list of high-value targets hidden in this country.
Over the past 10 years, this city has become in the den of drug lords and fugitives, the elders pirates around the world and even money laundering specialists. During this period, three large organizations dominated the world of organized crime in Europe: the Albanian Mafia, the Balkan Cartel and the Mocro-Maffia, a dangerous clan whose members are mostly second-generation Moroccans, who have terrified the Netherlands and spread their tentacles across the continent.
They all use Spain for their activities: either to settle, or to introduce tons of cocaine into Europe, or to launder the money they make from drug trafficking.
According to the sources consulted, some of the leaders of these three major international criminal gangs remain hidden in Dubai. Mafia bosses operating in Marseille (France) were also detected there.
These efforts are part of a common strategy implemented at the European Union level for months. Europe, like Spain, currently sees a problem with Dubai: the big drug lords live there like kings. Countries like France, like Spain, have made efforts and requests to facilitate police investigations.
