Sunday, March 13, 2005

Police uncover massive money laundering network in Spain

Spanish police are investigating the discovery of a massive money-laundering operation in southern Spain. Yesterday the Interior Ministry announced that 41 people had been arrested and that more than 250 million euros of illegal money had been laundered in Marbella and Alicante in what is the biggest police operation against money laundering in Spanish history.

300 Spanish police have participated in this investigation which began two years ago and has since uncovered a network of people from Spain, Morrocco, France, Finland, Russian and Ukrania who are accused of laundering black money from different sources, including the Russian oil company Yukos. According to reports in the Spanish media, millions of euros were taken from Yukos, transferred to a Dutch company and re-invested in a Spanish branch of the same company.

Police have searched 18 homes and 251 different real estate promotions along the Costa del Sol, including luxury mansions and complexes. Police have seized van-loads full of documents, hard discs, 42 luxury cars (Rolls Royce, Ferrari, Porsche, Mercedes....), two private planes and a yacht.

Operation “white whale” (as Spanish police have called it) began in 2003 and its misión was to investigate links between a lawyers firm in Marbella and groups of international organized crime. According to reports in Cadena Ser, the firm was used to launder massive sums of illegal money from criminal sources such as international trade of drugs, arms, prostitution, kidnapping, blackmail, and tax evasion. One of the fiscal judges investigating the case said today that “the worse was still to come” and some put the sum of laundered money at 600 million euros.

3 Comments:

Anonymous said...

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"Finanzas Expresas Del Atlax"
San Babiles 3.L 5
Villaviciosa De Odon
Madrid Spain
Telephone Number: +34605148656
Fax Number: +34605148659
web address is
http://www.finexdelat.com

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6:12 PM  
Anonymous said...

hola, soy carlos de colombia, he sido victima de finanzas expresas del atlax o www.finexdelat.com y me robaron us$4000 ademas de que tienen escaneados mis documentos, pasaporte y cedula de identidad, por favor cuidense de la identificasiones que lleguen por internet, ya que en realidad son de personas a las que les han quitado de manera fraudulenta e inescrupulosa este tipo de documentos, espero que antes de que alguien mas sea victima de estas personas malintecionadas, se acesoren y desconfiende todo aquel que le diga que por favor no comente con nadie el tipo de negocio que le estan proponiendo, porque el unico perjudicado sera usted. no sea victima de esta gente, piense que si le piden que no comente nada es porque algo oscuro se trama. si alguien requiere informacion escribame a este correo electronico. caralmarper@yahoo.com

1:12 AM  
azmat said...

i received a letter from spain with lines that i have won a lottery.i had given them my information now i am frightend that what can they do with my information.please help me

12:36 PM  

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