End to the double life of Chief Inspector Óscar, arrested with his partner for accumulating more than 20 million euros from cocaine trafficking. The break-in of his colleagues at the home he shared with his partner, another national police officer also detained, puts an end to his alleged collaboration with a drug trafficking organization that has lasted for years and that the Internal Affairs police and the Anti-Terrorism Unit Delinquency and Organized Crime (Udyco) still have to completely rebuild.
The amount obtained by the chief inspector represents a record of corruption in the State Security Forces and Corps. Never has a police officer made so much money by perverting the use of his uniform and badge. Perplexity has spread in the National Police, where, depending on who you ask, Chief Inspector Óscar was considered somewhat conflictive, or simply a reclusive guy, reluctant to share his free time with his colleagues.
The detainee was the head of the Unit against Economic and Fiscal Crime (UDEF) of the Police in the Madrid area. The specialty of the UDEF became famous, after its creation at the beginning of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero’s mandate, for the major cases of corruption that came years later: Malaya, Gürtel… and that “what the hell is the UDEF?” that Jordi Pujol spoke in an interview. Among its agents there are many graduates in Economics. Police officers far from monitoring or dealing with informants who immerse themselves for entire days in banking documents, property titles and any other clue that offers money to follow traffickers or corrupt authorities.
In this case, and according to what investigators believe, Óscar had put his knowledge at the service of a drug trafficking organization, criminals who accumulate their profits and who know that, almost more important than the introduction of the drug, is being able to hide their benefits or derive them towards legal companies.
But the chief inspector is not the only one attributed with the architecture of the gang’s money laundering. Investigation sources consulted by elDiario.es assure that the command provided cover for the containers that drug traffickers used to introduce drugs into Spain.
Precisely, the Ministry of the Interior reported on Wednesday of this week of the largest seizure of cocaine to date: 13 tons ready to be introduced through the port of Algeciras. In the midst of the devastation caused by DANA, the seizure of the drug had a minor echo in the media, but it triggered the operation against Óscar and his partner, whom investigators also linked to the dismantled organization. She was assigned to the Family and Care for Minors Unit (UFAM) of the Alcalá de Henares police station, in Madrid. These are the police officers who deal with cases of sexist violence or violence against children.
On Wednesday, in Algeciras, the deputy director of Customs Surveillance operations, Manuel Montesinos, assured the media that the seizure of 13,062 kilos of cocaine was not “the result of chance.” Together with the Police Udyco, Customs Surveillance had investigated a banana importing company located in the province of Alicante for four years. The bananas arrived, but the company had no profits or infrastructure.
Police and Customs agents carried out more than 200 secret inspections of the company’s containers. Suspicions entered another level when the Alicante company stopped working with banana exporters from other Latin American countries and focused on buying from a company from Ecuador that the authorities of the Latin American country linked to drug trafficking.
Finally, in mid-October the shipment was detected and the Customs Surveillance Medusa scanner certified that the drugs were inside. It was a container in which a first screen of boxes of bananas traveled, which covered the rest of the cargo, consisting of boxes of the same appearance and size loaded with 11,000 cocaine pills, 13 tons in total.
Narcos, economists, police and prosecutors
These are two different operations that converge. The seizure of the drugs is directed by a court in Algeciras while the investigations that have led to the arrest of the chief inspector, his partner and 13 other people are continuing in the National Court. This Friday, the head of the Central Court of Instruction number 1, Francisco de Jorge, sent the 15 detainees to provisional prison. In addition to the alleged drug traffickers, among those arrested there are economists and tax experts. The cause is kept secret.
The investigation into chief inspector Óscar began in January 2024, but Udyco and Internal Affairs did not have the evidence ready until June, the month in which the Anti-Drug Prosecutor’s Office presented the complaint that prosecuted the case in the National Court. The police had detected a bank transfer between a drug trafficking company and another that they linked to Óscar and his partner. Behind it there was an apparent business activity, but something didn’t add up. The discovery of more than 20 million euros in the walls of the policemen’s house points to several years of collaboration with drug traffickers.
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