Spanish police have seized (EURO)25 million ($35 million) in the house of a suspected international money launderer in what they say is the biggest seizure of cash in a raid in Spain.
Seventeen people were arrested in Spain and four in the United States in the operation over the past four days.
A police statement Monday said the money seized in Madrid was found underneath a floor in a house.
A U.S. prosecutors statement Thursday said the alleged leader, Alvaro Lopez Tardon, of Miami Beach, Florida, had allegedly received $26 million in drug proceeds from Spain since 2004.
Police said the gang acted as money launderers for traffickers selling cocaine from Colombia in Spain by using drug proceeds to buy and sell luxury vehicles.
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