A scrap metal dealer confesses to regular payments to five national police officers from an anti-drug group in Seville

Five national police officers from the Alcalá de Guadaíra Narcotics Unit in Seville are being investigated for allegedly handing over to a scrap dealer objects seized in operations against marijuana plantations in the province. This is clear from information published by Diario de Sevilla .

The scrap dealer, who is also being investigated in this case, has admitted to having paid the officers under investigation on several occasions: each time they delivered to him parts seized in police operations. These substances were to be destroyed.

After his arrest, the head of the FJOG recycling company “spontaneously” admitted to the officers of the Internal Affairs Unit that he regularly paid money to the agents of the Anti-Drug Group. He added that they regularly came to his company with the intention of requesting the services of “dismantling and destroying ballasts, lamps, cables, etc.” that were seized in the different police operations they carried out on indoor marijuana crops.

Without mediation of institutions The scrap dealer has stated that he paid between 120 and 200 euros to the agents each time they brought him confiscated objects.

In this statement, the man explained that, every time he took the material seized in the police operations to his company, the agents “required a certain amount of money for the 'scrapping', agreeing to pay them amounts that varied, depending on the batch collected, between 120 and 200 euros”. According to the suspect, the police officers “illegally kept the air conditioners that were found in the aforementioned plantations to sell them on their own”.

This money was delivered personally to the police officers without the mediation of any public institution, “leaving no traceability in his company of the agreed money, although on some occasions he had given them a delivery note with the agreed amount in the name of the National Police Force”. This is clear from the report of the Internal Affairs unit in the report of the Alcalá court that is investigating this case of alleged police corruption.

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As explained by the aforementioned media, Internal Affairs has informed the court of the statements made by one of the detainees in the drug trafficking organization that has been dismantled, in which he gave an account of the payments that were supposedly being made to members of the Narcotics group to avoid police persecution of their activities: “I do not traffic drugs. I earn my living as I can because I have a family and we survive to get ahead.

Of the five police officers who were arrested in September 2024, two of them are currently still in prison. They are the sub-inspector of the Narcotics group and another member of the group. The Investigating Judge number 3 of Alcalá de Guadaíra has rejected their release due to the seriousness of the crimes attributed to them and the high risk of escape.

Last November, the judge rejected the request for release of the sub-inspector, who is charged with ten crimes of belonging to a criminal organization, against public health, bribery, against public administration, discovery and violation of secrets, against property, falsification of documents, coercion, failure to prosecute crimes and illegal possession of weapons.