Seven prosecuted for a network that introduced 73 tons of cocaine through companies in El Campello and Madrid

Among the defendants is the marriage of the Alicante company and the alleged ringleader, who was helped by the former head of the UDEF and has homes valued at 20 million in Dubai.

1. Closed 13 FEB 2026 10:17 Updated Feb 13, 2026 17:44

The National Court has prosecuted seven people and seven merchants of the drug trafficking organization, accused of having the collaboration of a police inspector, former head of the UDEF in Madrid, to introduce 39 containers with some 73 tons of cocaine valued at 2,060 million euros. The network prosecuted for drug trafficking and money laundering used two fruit import companies, one from Madrid and the other – Abadix Fruits – based in El Campello, where a couple who have been prosecuted in this case reside.

Magistrate Luis Francisco de Jorge, head of position 1 of the Instruction Section of the Central Court of Instance – the new name of the National Court – has not included in this indictment either inspector Óscar S.G. or many other investigated who were arrested as a result of the seizure in Algeciras in October 2024 of the 13 tonnes of cocaine hidden in a container of fruit imported by the company from El Campello, the largest cache seized in Spain.

In addition to the former head of the UDEF, who was seized with more than 20 million euros in cash at his homes in Madrid and Dénia, the sister of the administrator of the El Campello company, who was arrested by the Police, is also not prosecuted. Both this investigated and the couple who reside in El Campello – José Miguel B.C. and Vilma Janet A.B. – are defended in the case by the lawyer Francisco Miguel Galiana Botella and none of the three is in prison. For the man, house arrest was decreed in March last year for being sick and needing continuous dialysis treatment and since then he has been confined in his luxurious villa in El Campello.

Head of the organization

The one who does appear in the indictment is the one considered to be the head of the organization, Ignacio T.D., who has been imprisoned this week by the National Court after a new appearance made based on new police reports that reveal evidence of his participation in the direction and coordination of the introduction of 39 containers with cocaine between 2020 and 2024.

The magistrate points out in the order notified this Thursday that Ignacio T. is charged with crimes punishable by up to 27 years in prison for drug trafficking and money laundering from drug trafficking. The judge has issued this Friday a new order to correct the previous resolution to include more crimes charged to the ringleader – bribery and disclosure of secrets – and information about the plot. It also announces more orders to complete the rest of the prosecutions in this summary, including a specific one on the police inspector imprisoned for this case.

The latest report by the Police reveals new indications of the organisation’s operation to introduce cocaine into Spain and the business structure to launder the profits of drug trafficking. Along with Ignacio T., Alejandro S.V., alias El Tigre, an alleged drug trafficker who is on the run and could be taking refuge in Dubai, is also being prosecuted.

The indictment refers to the close collaboration between the head of the drug trafficking network and the former head of the UDEF in Madrid, who received payments from the ringleader in exchange for collaborating in the introduction of containers with cocaine since at least 2020. To this end, the magistrate specifies that the inspector fraudulently used the intelligence databases for the benefit of the organization and prevented the investigation of the companies used to import the drugs. He pretended that he was investigating them and received alerts when other units were interested in these companies, which allowed the former head of the UDEF to alert the drug traffickers to abort operations.

The order also states that the head of the organisation received “confidential and secret police information” from the UDEF command,  such as that referring to the origin of the information that allowed the police to seize in Algeciras the container imported by the El Campello company with thirteen tonnes of cocaine.

In addition to the evidence collected on the introduction of 73 tons of cocaine, the magistrate highlights the international money laundering structure that Ignacio T. had as head of the organization, which used front men to try to hide his assets. In Dubai alone, five real estate properties valued at more than 20 million euros have been located  – one of them is a mansion of 10 million – according to the order of the National Court.

The court ruling also includes the payments made by the head of the organization to other members of the network and indicates that so far it has not been possible to intervene in the cash held by the head of the organization, nor his crypto assets.

However, in one of the messages analyzed, two virtual wallets with more than ten million dollars in bitcoins appeared. Likewise, Ignacio T. and Eduardo M., another of the seven defendants, were customers of a financial institution where they managed funds amounting to more than 22 million euros.

The investigator agreed on Monday to send Ignacio T to provisional detention, three days after he was arrested in the framework of the investigations after invoking his right not to testify as investigated.

The Prosecutor’s Office requested at that time the arrest of Ignacio T., alleging that the risk of flight had increased because the investigation is very developed and is on its way to trial. This defendant was released last April after the Criminal Chamber of the National Court recognized that his right to effective judicial protection and freedom had been violated by not providing his defense with “essential elements” of the case necessary to challenge the deprivation of liberty.

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