Spain has arrested one of its top police officers after €20m (£17m) was found hidden in the walls of his house, as part of an investigation into the country’s largest-ever cocaine bust.
Óscar Sánchez Gil was until recently the head of the fraud and anti-money laundering division of Spain’s national police force in Madrid.
Officers arrested him last week along with 15 other people, including his romantic partner, who is also a police officer in the Madrid region, a police source said without naming her.
During the raid, police found the €20m, in cash, hidden in the walls and ceilings of the couple’s home in Alcalá de Henares, a town of about 195,000 inhabitants located 18 miles (30km) east of the Spanish capital.
Err, yes.
He should be praised for his innovative Green insulation technique.
We shouldn’t sneer at the Spaniards so much – at least their bent cops are merely avaricious, and not terrorist sympathisers….
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Julia, d’you think the Plod might be “openly gay” or is just happy with a nice new suit?
“including his romantic partner”: how sweetly expressed. The music of Carmen floods my imagination.
Well at least he went to more effort to hide it than say, that US pol who put $100k in his freezer…
Was there a Court order that the money shoud be frozen?
“NOMINATIVE DETERMINISM” certainly seems to have befallen Archbishop Wellbum.
Talking of the Archbishop, nothing describes the loss of moral compass amongst the elite as him demanding Boris resigns over Partygate but also thinking he doesn’t need to resign after covering up years of child abuse and being condemned by an inquiry.
I had a great consolation this morning: the Telegraph’s principal cartoon reminded me that Archbishop Laud had been beheaded.
I suppose that in the nature of things if there were ever a good Archbishop of Canterbury he’d be long forgotten.