The audience fears that the UDEF chief that matches millions fleeing if it is free | Spain

The National Court fears that Óscar Sánchez, the chief inspector of the Economic and Fiscal Crime Unit (UDEF) arrested last November with more than 20 million euros in cash in his possession (Several of them, sandwiched at home), run away if you are released. The Criminal Chamber has confirmed this week the decision of the investigating judge Francisco de Jorge to send him to provisional prison after his arrest. « The risk of subtraction to the action of justice is evident, » writes the magistrates of the court in a resolution dated Wednesday, where they add: « their alleged integration into a criminal organization and the high amounts of money that seems to manage would enable their displacement abroad or their concealment in Spain. »

The alleged corrupt agent lived as a discreet official of accommodated middle class. Married and with two children, he lived in a villa paired in a residential area in the town of Villalbilla, a few kilometers from the capital, where he moved to work in his office of the Superior Police Headquarters of Madrid. He did not attract attention, nor did he show expensive cars. His bodymates describe him as a distant, bland and reserved character; to which the press has baptized with the nickname The Anodine.

However, an internal affairs investigation, of the Central Drug and Organized Crime Unit (UDYCO), the Anti -Drug Prosecutor’s Office and the National Court has revealed what he hid. According to the summary, Sánchez I worked for Ignacio Torán’s bandan alleged cocaine capo settled in Spain and specialized in the importation of cargoes of narcotics from South America. Agents suspect Alejandro Salgado Vega, aka The tigerconsidered as one of the most « powerful » Spanish drug traffickers in the world and in an unknown whereabouts, It was also part of that framework. In fact, Jorge Judge issued an order to search and capture against Salgado Vega on Tuesday.

The investigations indicate that the chief inspector had devised a modus operandi to offer sucks and protection of your partners in exchange for brutal bites. Then, an alleged maraña of companies urged to bleach the huge amount of money he earned. So much that it was not enough to wash it. And, when they arrested him, the agents found more than 20 million euros in their possession: most of them hidden at their home, but also in their office of the Headquarters and in their second residence in Denia (Alicante).

« The finding of extraordinarily high amounts of cash (…) constitute proof of criminal activity and payments received, » emphasizes the criminal hall, which rejects the appeal presented by Sánchez to try to be released. The magistrates affect that huge amounts of money were found at home: “Hidden in double funds on ceilings, walls, hidden compartments ad hoc in the structure of the building (safes, outer garden, etc.) ”.

The amount of money located at home was so great that the Justice official informed the judge that it was « impossible to proceed to count during the registration »; So it was decided to seal it and take it to the Canillas Police Complex to proceed days later to the final computation. According to the Criminal Chamber, the discovery of these amounts in metallic « seems to confirm » the accusations: « The aforementioned quantities (…) They can hardly correspond to the perception of their compensation as an official. His concealment is indicated by an illegal origin. »

The defense of Oscar Sánchez filed an appeal against his imprisonment and claimed that his situation was similar to that of Ignacio Torán, which was released when he understood that his rights were violated, since the instructor magistrate did not facilitate his lawyer the “essential elements” of the accusations that consisted of him because the cause was then under summary secret.

However, the Chamber emphasizes that this does not happen in the case of the Chief Inspector. « (When) the secret for almost the entire case had been raised, it was agreed to resort to provisional prison ”.