PROPERTY SEARCH
PROPERTY SEARCH
Looters raid the chalet of a policeman with 20 million walled up, searching for more forgotten money
Thieves have ransacked the home of a crooked anti-organised crime cop in Spain accused of taking money from the mob and hiding bundles of banknotes hidden in his doghouse
At least two groups of looters have entered the chalet of the Spanish chief inspector in charge of the money laundering unit who walled up 20 million euros in his home. The looters entered the chalet in the El Viso neighbourhood of Madrid looking for cash to steal.
Police chief Óscar Sánchez Gil amassed a fortune thanks to the million-dollar bribes that the head of the economic and tax crimes unit received in exchange for giving tips to drug traffickers about safe routes and times to bring their cargo into Spanish ports.
According to sources from the investigation, the groups of intruders who have now broken the gate of Sánchez’s chalet and several windows to enter the house supposedly had the intention of looking for more money ‘forgotten’ by the agents of Internal Affairs.
Only hours before the looting began, the agents had literally dismantled the walls and ceilings of the house looking for money. They found 19 million euros that was hidden in false ceilings and in the dog kennel outside. A further 1 million euros, in 500-euro notes, was found in a cupboard in the office of the corrupt cop.
Investigators are certain that the looters, who rummaged through the rubble left by the agents and who searched the ‘hiding holes’ discovered by Internal Affairs, did not find any more money.
The property was searched on November 6 for more than 24 hours in detail. The officers, helped by trained sniffer dogs, made several excavations in the 60 metres of garden, dismantled the sewage treatment pipes and used radial saws to access nooks where it was assumed that bundles of money could have been hidden.
The police commander was arrested on the same day. His wife, Noelia, was also arrested in the operation. The woman, with whom he had lived for almost 30 years in the chalet with millions walled in, is also a police officer.
The two, like the 15 others arrested in this same operation for cooperating in the introduction of cocaine into Spain, are accused of the crimes of drug trafficking, bribery, money laundering and criminal organisation. The National Court also accuses the police officers of failing to comply with the duty to pursue crimes.
The operations have confirmed that at least since 2019 this commander collaborated with the drug traffickers with tips to set the times and safe routes in which the containers were not going to be inspected.
Only 2% of the containers are opened in Spain by Customs Surveillance, but the damage of losing just one of them is enormous for drug organisations, so information on safe routes is paid for at a high price, sources of the investigation point out.
In this way, Sánchez Gil received huge amounts of money in cash for these tips. He received up to a million euros per container introduced to the country without incident. This amount, however, would have been only a small amount compared to the value of the product. On October 14 in the port of Algeciras, 13 tons of illicit drugs were seized by the police. The entry was managed by Oscar Sánchez Gil and the street value of the product would have been 500 million euros.
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