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New details have emerged from Europol's mega-operation on money laundering in Spain and Portugal, as Albanians were also part of the gang.
Fourteen people have been arrested in Spain and Portugal in a series of raids targeting a criminal money laundering network working with gangs across Europe.
It is learned that most of the arrested suspects are Russian citizens, according to the EU law enforcement agency Europol.
According to the Spanish National Police, the network mainly laundered money from illegal drug trafficking and charged a 2-3% commission per transfer as part of "a genuine multinational money laundering company."
Nine properties were raided in cities across Spain, as well as in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, and more than €1 million in cash and cryptocurrencies were seized.
The gang operated in cities across Spain with each office processing up to €300,000 a day for Albanian, Serbian, Armenian, Chinese, Ukrainian and Colombian mobsters based within the EU and elsewhere.
The investigation began in 2023 when police noticed that several known members of the Russian mafia were systematically transferring money belonging to foreign nationals in and out of Spain on a daily basis.
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