Institutional Disgrace: Mallorcan Anti-narcotics Boss Arrested

What galore judge was only existent successful countries for illustration Mexico, wherever alliances betwixt supplier cartels and nan highest levels of authorities are corroding authorities and society, has conscionable happened successful Mallorca, wherever an anti-narcotics main has been arrested for laundering illicitly obtained money.

A associated cognition betwixt nan National Police and nan Civil Guard has led to nan apprehension of 13 group for belonging to a money laundering business web stemming from supplier trafficking. Among those arrested is Faustino Nogales, erstwhile caput of nan National Police’s Narcotics Unit successful nan Balearic Islands.

Others arrested see lawyer Gonzalo Márquez and nan leader of nan United Tribuns motorcycle gang, Stefan Milojevic. As reported by Última Hora, nan latter, nan boy of a erstwhile RC Mallorca player, had already been implicated successful different constabulary operations against supplier trafficking.

Police hunt respective homes

The cognition began connected Monday greeting pinch simultaneous searches of rule offices and homes located successful various areas of nan island, including Palma, Binissalem, and Inca. During nan operation, 13 group suspected of engagement successful money laundering were arrested.

The arrests are motivated by money laundering, but advancement is not ruled retired successful nan investigation, which remains nether summary secrecy, involving alleged crimes of supplier trafficking, arms trafficking, bribery, and rank successful a criminal organisation.

Police are investigating Nogales’ alleged engagement successful nan criminal network. They activity to find nan links betwixt nan erstwhile constabulary main and different parts of nan criminal enterprise, specified arsenic nan supplier trafficking operations, that enabled money laundering. His imaginable links to nan different detainees are besides being analysed, pinch a attraction connected nan biker, Infobae informed.

Police ambush erstwhile constabulary boss’s home

On Tuesday, August 12th, constabulary searched nan location of  Nogales, arsenic portion of their investigation that included searches successful different dwellings crossed Palma, Binissalem and Inca.

This is nan 2nd high-profile apprehension of a Spanish constabulary serviceman successful a money laundering lawsuit recently, pursuing nan detention of Chief Inspector Óscar Sánchez Gil successful November 2024, wherever €20 cardinal was recovered successful his home.

The United Tribuns pack pinch which Nogales allegedly useful is simply a biker pack linked to controlling supplier trafficking successful nightclubs, brothels, and clandestine parties successful Mallorca, which was nan target of a National Police cognition successful January 2020, during which it was allegedly dismantled. The investigation suggests that Milojevic led this group.

Most of those arrested are linked to nan United Tribuns. Stefan Milojevic, boy of erstwhile Real Mallorca subordinate Goran Milojevic, was arrested successful 2020 successful a National Police cognition seeking to disband nan organisation.