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Woman whose rape complaint triggered Spanish police chief’s resignation is ‘devastated’ after her identity is shared on social media

Liliana Ochoa,Irene Dorta,Patricia Ortega Dolz,Óscar López-Fonseca — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:18:23 GMT

A Spanish police inspector who accused a senior colleague of sexual assault, prompting the latter’s resignation, is “devastated” after her identity was revealed and shared on social media, said her lawyer, Jorge Piedrafita. Speaking on Spain’s state broadcaster, TVE, the woman’s lawyer said that his client’s full name has been “circulating” in WhatsApp groups for police officers, and that she has since been “bombarded with messages and calls,” some of which were “supportive” of her decision to come forward with her complaint against a top police official, while others were threatening in tone. He also said that rumors and slander are being spread deliberately.

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The trail left by the largest cocaine haul in Spanish history

José María Jiménez Gálvez ,Patricia Peiró Aso,Rodrigo Silva Martínez — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 14:07:55 GMT

October 17, 2024. An angry businesswoman sends an email to Spanish Customs. Her name is Vilma Janet Águila, and she is the owner of Abadix Fruits, a company based in Alicante supposedly specializing in importing fruit from South America. “How can it be that on average containers spend 2-4 weeks at the port after arrival. We’re talking about perishable fruit (NOT NAILS OR SCREWS). When the fruit gets to our clients, over ripe, they don’t pay us what was agreed upon, because the quality doesn’t correspond to what was negotiated,” she writes in the email, in which she goes out of her way to appear indignant and announces that she is giving up on collecting the cargo of container TCLU1210545, which had arrived in Algeciras a few days earlier: “WE CAN’T TAKE THIS SITUATION ANYMORE!” she complains in capital letters in the text, co-signed by her partner, José Miguel Berenguer.

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Torán's preventive jail order annulled

Investigating Judge Francisco de Jorge remanded Ignacio Torán in custody following his arrest last November, but the Criminal Chamber recently accepted an appeal seeking to annul the decision. The court believes his rights were violated because the judge failed to provide his lawyer with the "essential elements" of the charges against him as the case was sealed under a secret summary order at the time, preventing him from properly defending himself.

Torán's preventive jail order annulled

How the Chinese criminal network Tian Xia She operated: Young girls prostituted as slaves and minors selling drugs

Juana Viúdez — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 20:05:24 GMT

It was all about business and they knew how to get the most out of each person, whether they were young girls tricked into travelling to Spain in search of a better future, or minors without roots who started dealing drugs and who were promised a career within “the family.” That “family” was the criminal organization Tian Xia She, which according to police translators means “the world.” This Chinese mafia was dismantled last December in an operation that resulted in four of its leaders being sent to prison and 33 of its victims freed. The investigation, which took two years, targeted a “hierarchical and ramified” mafia that wove international networks to amass money through the sexual exploitation of women, illegal immigration, or extortion of hospitality businesses, among other crimes. The profit from this criminal activity, “a huge amount of money” that investigators estimate in “the millions,” was mainly moved in cash. It was either returned to China to be laundered or loaned to the Chinese community in Spain under usurious conditions.

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