The Tax Agency, in a joint operation with the National Police and Europol, has arrested five people in the province of Valencia for allegedly belonging to a family crime organization that he had laundered more than 45 million euros in Spain.
As reported by the Tax Agency on Tuesday, the investigations began in 2017, coordinated by the Prosecutor against Corruption and Organized Crime and by the Court of Instruction number 20 of Valencia.
The researchers verified the “important” commercial and financial relationship that he had developed a Spanish company run by a family criminal organization.
The business operations examined, based primarily on interior design work and decoration of buildingsApparently, they had prices much higher than market values, although the Spanish mercantile company lacked personnel and an infrastructure that corresponded to such a volume of business, and it introduced large amounts of money into the Spanish financial sector. The total exceeded 45 million euros.
To carry out these activities, the organization made certain disbursements that could be identified as pPossible commission payments to alleged front men in bank accounts in third countries, as well as the acquisition of real estate in Spain on behalf of other people.
And to hide your “extraordinary” increase in equity, The organization created a corporate structure that was intended to camouflage the final destination of the funds obtained, although a large part of them were used to acquire numerous properties in the city of Valencia.
Faced with the international connections of this criminal organization, during the investigation we had the support of a specialist from the Anti-Corruption Group of the European Center against Economic and Financial Crime (EFECC) and the European Union Agency for Police Cooperation (Europol).
So far, five Spaniards have been arrested for their alleged involvement in crimes of money laundering and membership in a criminal organization, although future arrests are not ruled out.
The two records carried out have allowed the intervention of various documentation, both on paper and electronic and digital. (various computers, tablets and mobile phones), “That at first glance – adds the Tax Agency – could show the effective commission of the investigated facts.”
With the analysis carried out, the existence of other possible crimes carried out by the organization.
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They have been judicially intervened 16 properties, almost all located in the province of Valencia, as well as two vehicles.
They have also been seized 35 bank accounts and some 21,000 euros in cash have been intervened, as well as different objects and collections of high economic value.
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