The Anti-Drug Prosecutor’s Office has requested the National Court file the case that led to the investigation against Lieutenant Colonel of the Civil Guard David Oliva -former Anti-drug chief for the Strait of Gibraltar- and two other agents of the Armed Institute for alleged disclosure crimes of secrets and bribery.
As legal sources have confirmed to the Europa Press agency, the Public Ministry has urged the archive of the main investigation while requiring that the separate piece relating to Oliva himself and the two agents of the Armed Institute be sent to an ordinary court.
The aforementioned investigation was initiated last year by the Internal Affairs Service of the Armed Institute as a separate piece of a broader case that the Anti-Drug Prosecutor’s Office is secretly handling. Sources in the case indicate that Oliva is being investigated for allegedly having pressured a subordinate and the other lieutenant to find out if his presence at a drug dealer’s party was being investigated.
Oliva would have pressured the two lieutenants to find out if Internal Affairs was investigating him for attending a party for a drug dealer, investigations that, according to the aforementioned sources, were not being carried out. However, Internal Affairs did notice these alleged pressures and began to investigate him for it. He also directed his investigations against the other two lieutenants, also for both crimes.
He is charged with the crime of revealing secrets for trying to obtain said information and bribery for guaranteeing that lieutenant, that he would have finally provided him with some type of information, that it would go from Internal Affairs to Anti-Drug.
The pressure would have occurred during his time as head of the South Drug Trafficking Coordination Agency (OCON), created in mid-2018 as a leading unit in the fight against drugs and dismantled last September by the Ministry led by Fernando Grande-Marlaska.
The judge agreed on April 12 to release but with the obligation to appear monthly both Oliva and the two agents. That decision, made at the request of Antidroga, came after listening to the version of the three investigated for several hours.
The accusation of David Oliva, a key figure in the fight against drug trafficking in the Campo de Gibraltar, startled a large sector of the Civil Guard, as reported by EL MUNDO, colleagues of the lieutenant colonel of all scales and who were his subordinates warned that the germ of the investigation may come from an attempt by the drug traffickers themselves to discredit their work.
The investigation coincided with the time when David Oliva’s department pulverized the statistics on arrests and seizures of stashes. He received all kinds of distinctions. At just 45 years old, he has accumulated more than 60 medals and has no blemish on his record. The Ministry of the Interior awarded him in 2021 with the Medal of Merit of the National Plan on Drugs.
David Oliva was always in the crosshairs of drug trafficking organizations, as demonstrated by a WhatsApp group to which this newspaper has had access. “I hope this son of a bitch dies but a slow death and that he suffers minute by minute,” wrote one of them.
In another of the conversations, the monitoring to which he subjected the lieutenant colonel when he directed the OCON-Sur is appreciated. In one of those dialogues, the photograph of the car in which the police command was moving and the indications offered among the members of the group to keep it under control can be seen.
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