The agent is charged with revealing secrets and was questioned in June | He searched for police car license plates at the request of one of those investigated.

The judge of the National Court, Francisco de Jorge, will take a statement this Tuesday from the policeman Óscar González Crespo, investigated for an alleged crime of revealing secrets in the drug trafficking case where the former head of the UDEF of the National Police, Chief Inspector Óscar Sánchez, is being investigated. This command kept almost 19 million euros, allegedly the result of his work for a criminal organisation that would have introduced large quantities of cocaine into Spain.

González Crespo is the third agent investigated in the case, He is an escort of the president of the Senate, Pedro Rollán. The wife of the former head of anti-money laundering of the Economic and Fiscal Crime Unit (UDEF), Noelia Ruiz, is also charged. This police officer was stationed in a municipality west of Madrid, and is, together with her sister, key in the corporate network that Óscar Sánchez would have set up.

The judge charged González Crespo in the middle of the summer, according to an order in the possession of El Independiente. In an order from the beginning of July, the investigator relied on a last report from the Internal Affairs Unit (UAI). In the letter there are indications that would point to him having given information “to members of the criminal organization under investigation.” The policeman’s statement will be next Tuesday at 11:30 a.m.

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License plate consultation

González Crespo is part of the team of bodyguards of the president of the Senate. On June 12, UAI agents went to the institution’s Special Police Station to take his statement, as reported by Abc. At that time he was not in custody. They asked him about license plate inquiries he had made, to which he replied that he made them at the request of Eduardo Montero, one of those investigated whom he recognized as an old friend of more than two decades. One of the license plates corresponded to a camouflaged police car that was monitoring the movements of one of the members of the organization that day. He denied knowing anything about his alleged criminal activities.

That same day another agent has been summoned, but as a witness. He has been called at the request of the lawyer Francisco Miguel Galiana, who is defending José Miguel Berenguer, the owner of a fruit import company that allegedly served to bring the drug to Spain. That policeman was the one who analysed the substance of the 13 tonnes seized last November in Algeciras and that brought down the organisation. On September 29, two other alleged members of the organization, the aforementioned Eduardo Montero and Javier Martín, are summoned to voluntarily testify.

Already in October, the judge has summoned Salvador Ferreira for the 20th, and on the 27th two lawyers who would have participated in the corporate structure to launder the money of the plot, as reported by this newspaper. The administrator of an advertising company will also have to appear in the National Court.

Fruits and drugs

The case investigates an alleged criminal organisation that introduced huge quantities of cocaine into Spain. They used a company in Alicante dedicated to importing fruit from South America. But the containers, instead of bringing food, were loaded with farlopa. In fact, the beginning of the end of Sánchez’s police career occurred when the police seized 13 tons of cocaine in Algeciras, the largest cache in the history of Spain.

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The leader of the gang, supposedly, is Alejandro Salgado, known as El Tigre, one of the biggest drug traffickers in our country. He has been on the run in Dubai for years, a territory that has become a sanctuary for criminals from all over the world. From there he communicated with one of the defendants whom the investigators place at the top of the organization, Ignacio Torán.

The summary includes photographs of meetings between Torán and the police commander who is now in prison. Also messages in encrypted applications in which they allegedly talked about drug shipments. Óscar Sánchez was known as @Aduana. His job was to enter the names of his associates and the license plates of the containers with drugs in police bases. That way he could control if another unit investigated them.

Before joining the UDEF he had been in the UDYCO, the anti-drug unit. His specialty was in narcotics. The police sources consulted believe that it was at that post where he would have come into contact with the drug traffickers who later became his partners. Sometimes by arresting them and other times by having them as confidants.

Sánchez’s power was enormous. He decided which containers were opened and which were not. The day he fell, the one carrying 13 tons of cocaine showed his anger because he had not received the warning and no one had consulted him. The company that owned the shipment was registered by him, but his colleagues were already suspicious of his activities.

Millions in cryptocurrencies

The police found almost 18 million euros in Óscar Sánchez’s house, and another million in his official office. That gives an idea of the impunity with which he acted for at least five years. He used machines from the Superior Headquarters of Madrid to vacuum pack the banknotes. When the agents entered her home they had to stop counting because they could not cope. The agents know that there is at least one other house with “the same or more” money, but the police command has not wanted to collaborate.

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But the big loot is in cryptocurrencies. Home Affairs has found digital money in Ireland and Panama. According to knowledgeable sources, Sánchez had a security method whereby if one day he did not enter an application, his money was automatically transferred to opaque accounts.

To create the corporate network and hide the money in the Caribbean, they allegedly used a lawyer who knew the system, Mario Pestaña. This lawyer is an expert in commercial law and was arrested in December and later released, as were others involved.

The judge has asked Panama for information about alleged companies that Pestaña would have created there so that Sánchez would hide his money there. The summary states that the policeman was interested in buying 200 million euros in cryptocurrencies.