Tag: money laundering
Women’s hairdresser trafficked drugs across wide area and used her business to launder all the proceeds in Spain’s Costa...
A WOMEN'S hairdresser has been exposed as the lynchpin of a drug trafficking gang operating across the Marina Alta area of the Costa Blanca....
Bogus holiday rental scam captures victims in Spain and the UK
THE GUARDIA CIVIL in Valencia has brought down a group of scammers offering holiday home rentals in Spain to domestic and United Kingdom customers.
Two...
Uncle of Syrian autocrat Bashar al-Assad, nicknamed the ‘Butcher of Hama’, evades trial in Spain on medical grounds
SPAIN’S national court will try in May to resume the trial of the billionaire uncle of Syrian autocrat Bashar al-Assad, accused of money laundering...
Drugs gang laundered €4 million in real estate and business purchases on Spain’s Costa Blanca
A Costa Blanca drugs gang laundered €4 million of profits by purchasing businesses and properties between 2019 and 2022.
The criminals portfolio of businesses included...
Spotlight on Mallorca properties amid major Swedish money laundering case
Properties in Palma have been linked to money laundering allegations that have dragged in the husband and stepson of Marbella Mayor Angeles Muñoz.
Joakim Peter...
Dozens of properties in Spain seized with Russian money laundering gang member arrested in Canary Islands
A woman has been arrested in Tenerife as part of a probe into a crime gang suspected of laundering dirty money linked to the...
€140,000 cash found in spare wheel of stolen car in Spain’s Mijas
THE Guardia Civil have arrested, at a petrol station in Mijas, the driver of a high-end vehicle, apparently stolen in France last year.
The incident...
€1.5 million pyramid scam in Spain sees arrests in Tenerife, Costa Blanca, and Murcia areas
A pyramid scheme that netted €1.5 million from unsuspecting investors has been brought down by the Guardia Civil.
The two ring-leaders- an Italian national and...
Police in Spain’s Benidorm arrest major money launderer working for Dutch drugs gang
THE Guardia Civil in Benidorm have arrested a key figure in a Dutch drugs gang- said to be one of Europe's major narcotics trafficking...
Serbian drugs gang exported €2 million of marijuana annually from Costa Blanca and Valencia areas of Spain
A Serbian drugs gang operating out of the Alicante and Valencia areas of Spain has been brought down in an international police operation.
Europol said...
Businesses across Spain get ripped-off by Barcelona-based cybercriminals
A Barcelona-based cybercriminal gang defrauded 11 companies across Spain by intercepting business email invoices and pocketing the money.
They also scammed seven individuals on 'buy...
NERO TO ZERO: Kinahan ‘financier’ and ‘enforcer’ arrested after seizure of 200 kilograms of cocaine and €500,000 cash last...
HE has long been one of the Costas most feared ‘businessmen’.
A former Manchester doorman, Johnny Morrissey, 62, was this week led out of his...
Cyber scammers steal €30,000 from Costa Blanca fertility clinic clients in Spain
THREE women registered with an Alicante area fertility clinic have been conned out of over €30,000 in a computer scam.
The Guardia Civil have arrested...
Gibraltar placed on ‘grey list’ by global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog
GIBRALTAR has been grey listed for strategic deficiencies in its anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing regimes.
The Rock has joined the United Arab Emirates on...
Narcoboat and money laundering gang broken up in Costa Blanca and Almeria areas of Spain
A drug smuggling gang used high-speed boats to ship narcotics from North Africa to Spanish beaches and marinas before resorting to money laundering to...
One of UK’s ‘most wanted’ accused of £30 million fraud is arrested in Spain’s Murcia region
A 25-year-old British man on the run since 2020 for crimes of fraud and money laundering has been arrested in the Murcia area of...
Police find €400,000 in checked-in suitcase for flight from Spain’s Valencia to Turkey
A man tried to smuggle €400,000 out of Spain on a flight from Valencia Airport to Istanbul, Turkey.
Guardia Civil officers at the luggage...
International money launderer caught hiding out on Spain’s Costa Blanca
A money launderer wanted by Swedish authorities has been arrested on the Costa Blanca.
The 31 year-old was detained by the Policia Nacional in Torrevieja.
He's...
Multi-million money laundering ring acting as ‘bank’ for criminals is busted in Spain’s Malaga area
THREE German fugitives have been arrested in Malaga Province for running a money laundering ring that acted as a 'de facto' shadow banking system...
Costa Blanca fraudsters created 30 bogus companies to make €10 million by conning Spanish authorities
125 people have been arrested during an 18-month Policia Nacional investigation into a gang who created 30 fake companies to defraud social security and...
Costa Blanca tax consultant in Spain launders nearly €1 million through bank transfers and buying property for Norwegian couple
AN Alicante Province tax consultant has been arrested for helping two Norwegians launder part of €11.5 million they defrauded from Norwegian tax authorities.
A man...
Man extradited from Ukraine to Spain to face attempted murder charge
WHILE the 110,00 Ukrainians who have found refuge in Spain will be relieved to be here, one man won’t after he was extradited from...
Drug traffickers convert ‘squatted’ homes into cryptocurrency and marijuana farms on Spain’s Costa Blanca
FIVE members of a Costa Blanca drugs gang have been jailed in a major strike by the Guardia Civil.
Six people were bailed and two...
Businessmen to face court over controversial Madrid Covid-19 PPE deal which paid for luxury cars and a yacht in...
A Madrid court will pursue a corruption case involving two businessmen over a €14.2 million PPE contract with Madrid City Council.
The deal was struck...
Convicted Dutch drug-trafficker faces extradition after Benidorm arrest in Spain
A Dutch drug-dealing fugitive has been arrested by the Policia Nacional in Benidorm.
He was said to have been living in the city for 'several...
Cybercriminals in Spain’s Barcelona steal €1.6 million of broadcasting cash from Italian football club Florentina
THE Policia Nacional have arrested 11 people in the Barcelona area over a €1.6 million fraud against Italian Serie A football club, Florentina.
They sent...
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