The plot led by the police commander who had 20 million euros locked in his chalet was not just about his wife, front men and money launderers. The network also had paid tax advisors.
EL ESPAÑOL has learned that a tax advisor is also among those questioned by the National Court. Those who led the plot were Oscar Sanchez Gilthe main inspector who headed the economic crimes section of the Madrid police headquarters, and his wife, also an agent of the national police.
Internal police investigators, who arrested the two last week, suspect that this money corresponds to commissions received by Sánchez Gil to facilitate the entry of large quantities of drugs into Spain. To find the wads of cash, they had to break through the walls of the house for several hours.
According to investigative sources, the police command established a relationship with people with knowledge of tax consulting and the configuration of business networks. Thus, he joined forces with an alleged businessman who also had links to drug trafficking: Ignacio Toran Delgado.
Torán is under investigation by the National Court and was placed in provisional prison last Friday, with the rest of the 15 detainees; among them, the chief inspector, his wife and his sister.
While the police commander and his relatives remain locked up in the Estremera prison (where there is a specific module for public agents), Torán is locked up in module 3 of the Soto del Real prison, from where he has already called his closest relatives. in the week he was locked up.
Ignacio Torán, as confirmed by the same sources, was the partner of the main inspector in this plot and had already been imprisoned. His criminal record includes his entry into prison in 1999 for crimes “against public health”. This category includes those linked to drug trafficking.
In this operation, investigators from the UDYCO Central of the National Police are investigating him for the offenses of cultivation, manufacturing or trafficking of drugs, money laundering and criminal organization.
According to data in the commercial register, this businessman owned a company called Corporate Reputation Consulting SLofficially dedicated to accounting and tax advice.
This case, led by the Central Investigating Court number 1, is still under summary secrecy and new arrests are not excluded. Currently, there are already 15 people arrested. All were sent to temporary prison by judge Francisco de Jorge.
Entry into laundering
As this newspaper reported, Sánchez Gil asked to join the anti-money laundering unit. after reportedly beginning to collaborate with drug clans he met while working at the Central Narcotics Brigade.
This happened in 2020, when he was promoted and left the Drugs and Organized Crime Unit (UDYCO Central). Apparently, at that time he had already started providing information to the clans that were bringing large containers of drugs into Spain through the country’s most important ports.
At UDYCO, he led the group dedicated to fight against drug trafficking on the Internet. During this stage, according to the researchers, would have been captured by criminal organizations who introduce cocaine into the national territory.
Later, upon entering Lanqueo, he was able to master the two fundamental pillars that support investigations against drug trafficking. He had access to his colleagues’ investigations through police databases, and at the same time he knew how to launder money discreetly, and without falling into the same mistakes as other criminals.
According to sources close to the investigation, he received at least one million for each job for criminal organizations that have used their services. The role of the wife and sister-in-law of the police officer who found 20 million euros in his house is also fundamental to the plot.
It is for this reason that Judge De Jorge decided to send them to prison as well. The couple have two teenage children. And despite these roots, the magistrate did not hesitate to send Sánchez and his wife to prison, which would testify to the strength of the evidence against them or the possibility of a flight risk.
Police wedding
The wife of the main inspector was also an agent of the National Police. She was assigned specifically to the Judicial Police Unit of Alcalá de Henares. Both therefore had access to the databases containing the most sensitive investigations carried out within the Corps.
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 inspector’s sister-in-law, for her part, would act as a so-called straw man. At least he had his name 70 VTC licenseswho were those who served as a cover for the chief inspector, an expert in money laundering and who, on paper, was to devote himself to the prosecution of this and other crimes.
The discreet chief inspector managed to confuse many for years, with his “ordinary” life, as defined by his colleagues. He had been driving the same Range Rover for a decade.
His house, a chalet in Villalbilla, near Alcalá de Henares, offered him the tranquility, austerity and reserve necessary to avoid attracting attention. It was, however, filled with security cameras. His only known vice was the box he enjoyed at the Bernabéu. Nobody invited him. He went there because he paid for it out of his own pocket.
Internal Affairs investigators, as EL ESPAÑOL pointed out, continue to examine companies associated with the police officer, such as that of his associate Ignacio Torán. They are also analyzed assets form cryptocurrencies which could be connected to the network.
This operation is derived from another in which, from the Equator, 13 tons of cocainethe largest cache of this drug seized in the history of Spain. The organization for which Sánchez Gil worked was sufficiently calm to risk putting a material value 780 million euros.
These data, for the sources consulted, give a measure of the degree of control exercised by the drug trafficker over this network, who would have received commissions of several million dollars for facilitating shipments like this.
