Thursday, Spanish police busted in Madrid, a network of Moroccan and Chinese nationals who laundered hundreds of thousands of euros a week in drug money.
A police spokesperson said that officers arrested two Chinese nationals, one suspect from Hong Kong and three Moroccans in raids at locations including a major Chinese trading estate, near Madrid.
They seized 21 million items of clothing worth more than €100 million, as well as luxury cars and jewels and watches worth four million euros.
The network sold hashish that was smuggled from Morocco to Spain, distributing it to Britain, France and other countries and laundered the money, via wholesale purchases of clothes and jewellery.
After catching drug traffickers in December with 11 tonnes of hashish, police traced the gang’s financial activities and discovered it was laundering €500,000 of drug money a week.
Police said in a statement: “The group that has been broken up was mainly composed of nationals from Morocco and China specialized in introducing the illicit money into the legal market, they carried out a multitude of commercial transactions of clothing, deluxe watches, jewels and other goods”.
Moroccan members of the network used the money in transactions involving suspects in the industrial estate of Cobo Calleja, considered the biggest Chinese wholesale in Europe.
Also last year a major raid seized between the criminals the Chinese businessman, Gao Ping, who was charged with money laundering and other crimes.
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