31 Oct, 2019 @ 08:01
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Hugely popular luxury restaurant busted for money laundering for drug traffickers as €650,000 seized in dramatic raid in Spain’s Andalucia

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SEIZED: Cash found hidden in pipe

A MONEY laundering scheme involving a luxury restaurant has been brought down in Andalucia. 

In a dramatic raid last week, police seized €650,000 in cash from the popular Pure Estrecho in Algeciras.

The money, allegedly made from the sale of drugs in the Campo de Gibraltar, was found stashed in a pipe.

The restaurant is well-known in the area and is one of the most expensive in the city.

Pure Estrecho
POPULAR: Pure Estrecho restaurant

Investigators had spent a year digging into the money laundering network which involved a drug trafficker and the owner of the restaurant.

Known only as J.M.A.C, the trafficker has a history of drug-related crimes and had created two trading companies which ‘served’ the restaurant, owned by a man known only as S.M.G.

The pair allegedly used the companies to funnel huge amounts of drug money into the business, making it appear legitimate.

In addition to the two arrests, authorities seized two luxury vehicles and 12 properties related to the network.

One of the detainees has been locked up without bail while the other has been released ahead of a trial.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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