The Internal Affairs Unit of the Police has arrested a chief inspector of the Unit against Economic and Fiscal Crime (UDEF) of the National Police at the Madrid level, and his partner, also an agent of the Corps. In their house they hid 20 million euros in the walls, police sources have reported.
The Central Court of Instruction number 1 of the National Court has ordered the imprisonment of both in the framework of an operation where a total of 15 people have been detained and brought to justice this Friday. The two police officers are accused of the crimes of drug trafficking, money laundering and bribery, judicial sources tell elDiario.es. Among those detained are tax advisors and economists. Judge Francisco de Jorge has ordered provisional detention for the 15 detainees.
The arrests are related to the largest cocaine seizure to date, which the Ministry of the Interior reported last Wednesday. Four years of investigation into a banana importing company located in the province of Alicante led to the seizure of 13,062 kilos of cocaine in a container in the port of Algeciras (Cádiz) from Guayaquil (Ecuador).
Investigators suspect that the relationship between the couple of national police officers and the drug trafficking organization has extended over time and was not limited only to providing them with information on the progress of their colleagues. Investigation sources have informed elDiario.es that Internal Affairs detected an entry from one of the companies belonging to an alleged drug trafficker to another company related to the pair of national police officers. And that’s where the investigations came from. The bank income appeared to be a legal provision of services.
The police officer, whose arrest Vozpopuli has announced, was in charge of the Unit against Economic and Fiscal Crime (UDEF), part of the Judicial Police Brigade that depends on the Higher Police Headquarters in Madrid, not on the central services. The investigation has been carried out by Internal Affairs and the Unit against Crime and Organized Crime (UDYCO).
The Anti-Drug Prosecutor’s Office opened proceedings last January. After carrying out a property investigation that showed signs of crime against the police officers, the Public Ministry filed a complaint last June.
Source: www.eldiario.es
