What was missing in this Spain which lives between shock and astonishment, with a Government surrounded by corruption and a country outraged by the management of tragedy from Valencia, is that a senior police officer – Madrid’s chief anti-money laundering inspector – was arrested after hiding 20 million euros at his home and another million in banknotes in the drawer of his desk Headquarters in Madrid. The fact that it was his own colleagues in Internal Affairs who arrested him is undoubtedly some consolation, but it is difficult to understand how a police officer with high responsibilities could have amassed such a sum of money without drawing the line. alarm bells in advance.
He had reached the head of UDEF from Madrid four years ago and since then he has led multiple operations against money laundering mafias, crooks and economic criminals. Its relationship with drug trafficking groups seems obvious and in particular with the police operation which resulted in the seizure of the largest cocaine stash in the history of Spain, with the seizure of a container containing 13,000 kilos of drugs in Algeciras.
Discovered by his own colleagues, the investigation was entrusted to the Internal Affairs of the National Police, whose performance deserves to be highlighted. On the one hand, the police action is comforting, but on the other, it is appropriate to ask how it is possible that the detainee reached a position of maximum responsibility like the one he occupied without anyone noticing. doubt. What is urgent is to determine whether he acted alone or with support from others.
Spain is surpassed in its capacity for astonishment and what remained to be seen is that a chief of police doing business with the drug dealers he was, in theory, supposed to be pursuing. It is already a soap opera and is starting to dangerously resemble countries where the State is an entelechy and where corruption is endemic. Spain of Sanchez This is beginning to sound dangerously like the Mexico of “El Chapo” Guzmán.
