A former police chief, who faces drug trafficking charges has claimed that Spanish drug investigators fabricated fictitious intelligence reports to hide their use of intercepted phone messages from the courts. Former chief inspector Óscar Sánchez Gil, who is accused of running a drug trafficking operation told a court, that it was a “common and systematic practice” for Spanish drug investigators to withhold intercepted messages from judges. The disclosures, if proved true, are likely to raise to questions over the use of intercepted phone messages from encrypted phone network Sky ECC and the FBI run encrypted phone network, Anom, in criminal prosecutions. Giving evidence by video link from prison on 19 May 2026, Sánchez Gil, former head of the Economic and Fiscal Crime Unit (UDEF) claimed it was common practice to falsify the origin of information from intercepted messages by presenting them as tip-offs from overseas law enforcement agencies.