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After the Spanish police exposed the Russian criminal network and arrested 23 people on suspicion of money laundering, on Thursday, December 17, local publications published their names. The attackers planned to seize control of key sectors of the country’s economy.
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The organization in the tourist town of Alicante was controlled by two Russian citizens: Mityurev, an intermediary between Russian and Spanish businessmen, who was looking for clients, and Khakimov, responsible for money laundering.
Danilov is considered the key figure, but he was not arrested. He is called “a businessman who visited Spain regularly and who has direct relationships with mafia groups in his country involved in murders, extortion, weapons, drugs and human trafficking.”
Another important character in this scheme, journalists call the lawyer Alexei Shirokov, “in his fifties”, who has lived in the province of Alicante from a young age and graduated in law from a local university.
His law firm was a “magic office” capable of facilitating immigration procedures, such as granting residence permits in Spain, thanks to its relationship with the detained agents, who received payments and gifts for it.
He was also a link with the local administration and politicians, since, according to police sources, he was a member of the Popular Party in the municipality of Altea and an alleged lobbyist.
At Shirokov’s disposal, the newspaper claims, there was a whole arsenal of weapons, although he only had permission for sport shooting.
Parties of political thieves in Ibiza with high-level meetings
The mission of Zhizhin, the fourth detainee, was to create a commercial facade that would allow Russian criminals to invest illegally obtained money around the world.
During a call, he can be heard ordering a man to go to his car, take 61,000 euros and give it to his wife. They found him 180,000 euros in cash.
Also mentioned are the parties of “thieves in law” in Ibiza at a cost of € 30,000 per day “with very high level meetings”.
In addition to the Russians, a policeman and two guards were arrested, two members of the Security Council (one in Benidorm, another in Altea), officials (especially from the urban area) and several Spanish lawyers who were stupid.
All except Shirokov and three of his main accomplices were released pending trial, the publication says.
In the course of 18 searches carried out in the framework of this case, 300 thousand euros in cash were found in safes, 1 million euros in one of the blocked accounts, six pistols, two military rifles, an automatic rifle, a rifle. sniper with silencer and thousands of cartridges of various calibers. In addition, virtual wallets of cryptocurrencies, diamonds and 16 luxury cars were found.
During the legal proceedings, assets worth millions of euros were frozen. Investigators also found that all the businessmen Shirokov and his partners “advised” had accounts and safes at the same bank branch in Altea, where the investigation is ongoing.
The deactivated network “planned to take control of key sectors of the Spanish economy and infiltrate government agencies, enlisting the help of lawyers, government officials, politicians, businessmen and hackers,” police said.
The group, tracked down by the police in 2013, controlled nightclubs, hotels, restaurants and real estate on the Spanish coast. In addition, the gang members spent large sums on bribes to infiltrate Spanish structures.
Among the detainees there are eight Russian citizens, two Ukrainians, one from Kazakhstan and one from Algeria, 11 citizens of Spain. The police call it the largest operation against the Eastern European mafia carried out in Spain in the last 10 years.
Let us remind you that in October the Security Service of Ukraine exposed a network of administrators of a large-scale “cart farm” of Russian-connected provocateurs in the Dnipropetrovsk region. Their goal was to disrupt the elections.
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