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In Spain, on December 16, law enforcement officers detained dozens of Russian mafia money laundering suspects.
The largest special operation of its kind in the last 10 years was carried out by the police together with Europol, according to the website of the Spanish police agency. (to see photos and videos, scroll the page to the end).
A total of 23 people were arrested, including eight Russians, two Ukrainians, a native of Kazakhstan and a native of Algeria, as well as 11 citizens of Spain.
According to the police, members of a criminal gang aimed at controlling key sectors of the country’s economy… They also planned to use lawyers, civil servants, politicians, businessmen and hackers to penetration in state institutions.
Compliance with the law searches carried out in Madrid, Alicante, Tarragona and Ibiza, during which weapons, 300 thousand euros in cash, diamonds, 16 expensive cars and cryptocurrency accounts were discovered. Bank accounts and assets worth millions of euros were also detained.
Research has been conducted since 2013… It was then that the police recorded the activity of the Russian mafia in the country. According to the investigation, the suspects laundered the money of criminal organizations in the countries of the former USSR.
As OBOZREVATEL reported, in May, German law enforcement officers exposed a large-scale network of the Russian mafia. Then it turned out that almost 230 companies for the care of the sick and disabled, founded in Germany by immigrants from the former USSR, had created a system of coordinated falsification of invoices for services rendered.
