The chief anti-money laundering inspector detained in Madrid hid one million euros in banknotes in his desk drawer at the Madrid headquarters. It was his own colleagues in Internal Affairs who discovered the money and arrested him, as well as his wife, also a national police officer stationed at the Alcalá de Henares police station, and her sister. In total, the chief inspector of UDEFOscar S. hid a total of twenty million euros of illegal origin in two houses and his office.
The arrest of the chief inspector had the effect of a bombshell among his colleagues. The inmate dressed and lived discreetly without arousing the suspicions of his companions, he drove a ten year old car and lived in a chalet in a bourgeois urbanization in a small town in Madrid. He had reached the head of UDEF from Madrid four years ago and has since led multiple operations against money laundering mafias, fraudsters and economic criminals.
The surprise of the investigators was enormous when they discovered his alleged relationship with groups of drug traffickers and especially with the police operation which ended with the seizure of the largest cache of cocaine in the history of the Spain, with the requisition of a container containing 13,000 kilos of cocaine, drugs in Algeciras. Discovered by his own colleagues, the investigation passed into the hands of the Internal Affairs of the National Police, who did not hesitate to arrest their companion and his family.
Dogs to detect money
Last Wednesday, around 5 a.m., a police delegation led by agents from the Internal Affairs Unit, police officers from the Police Intervention Unit (UIP) and agents from the GOIT was at the chalet of the head of the Group of Economic Crime of Madrid, in the town of Villalbilla. and began a long search. GOIT officers, experts in careful searches and secure openings, demolished several parts of the house.
They were the dogs trained to find money hidden by those who found the place where they hid the bills, on the ceiling of the living room and between the partitions of the house, the Police found 14 million euros in wrapped notes. Officers found even more money in another chalet belonging to the detainee and in his office at Police Headquarters.
Concretely, more than 14 million euros They were hidden in the walls and ceiling of the living room of his chalet in the Madrid city of Villalbilla. Four million euros Moreover, they were hidden, walled in a second chalet they owned in a coastal municipality of Alicante. The last million euros that he kept in his desk drawer in Madrid.
Today, the president of the Central Investigation Tribunal of the National Tribunal sent the detained policeman to prison.