# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jose-manuel-villarejo
# Generated: 2026-09-02T22:42:58.291Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jose-manuel-villarejo"
name: "José Manuel Villarejo"
slug: "jose-manuel-villarejo"
description: "José Manuel Villarejo Pérez is a Spanish businessman and a former officer in Spain's National Police Corps. He was arrested in 2017. He is accused of involvement in a network of corrupt politicians, businesspeople, police officers and media figures known as the “sewers of state”. His trial started in October 2021. He was sentenced to 19 years in jail in 2024."
tagline: "Former Spanish police commissioner"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1951-08-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.28
  momentum:             2.333607230895645
  historical:           5.895441333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1708533/"
    handle:    "nm1708533"
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Villarejo"
    title: "José Manuel Villarejo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Villarejo"
    title: "José Manuel Villarejo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Villarejo_P%C3%A9rez"
    title: "José Manuel Villarejo Pérez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Villarejo"
    title: "José Manuel Villarejo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Villarejo"
    title: "José Manuel Villarejo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Villarejo"
    title: "José Manuel Villarejo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27960539"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5646726"
    title: "José Manuel Villarejo"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump