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After the crackdown on several exchange offices in Malmö, several people arrested for including money laundering and serious drug offenses. The police operation takes place on Tuesday.
At lunchtime on Tuesday, a joint government offensive was launched against the Malmö underworld. The police, the economic criminal authority and the tax authority participated together with the prosecution.
One of the exchange offices that was the target of the raid on Tuesday. Several people were moving behind the barrier tape during the search of the house.
It is a longer reconnaissance operation that resulted in the arrest of several people during synchronized raids.
– The case has been carried out with intensive reconnaissance for a few months, prosecutor Ulla Karlbrink tells Sydsvenskan.
It confirms that several bureaux de change, including the one in Möllevångstorget, were the subject of house searches. But other places were also visited.
– I don’t want to say the number of detainees, but there are more than one, says Ulla Karlbrink.
Already at 2 in the afternoon, a search was being carried out in one of the offices. Police unloaded the seized items, including computers, from the facility.
Criminal detainees suspected of money laundering constitute a serious and very serious drug crime. Thus, the laundering of large sums of black money and large batches of drugs or the regular and organized drug trafficking.
– We believe that exchange houses have been an important component of serious organized crime in the region.
The involvement of the Swedish Revenue Agency and the Swedish Environmental Crimes Agency indicates that more criminal suspicions may arise with regard to the accounting and reporting of exchange office activities.
