Had links to Costa del Sol drug gang – Ring leader and head of Spanish operation arrested.
THE Spanish police announced today that they arrested the head of one of the largest rings for Money laundering in Europewho had links to a Costa del Sol drug gang and used as a showcase the sale of vodka in restaurants.
A police spokesman told Reuters by telephone that John Francis Morrissey, ringleader and head of the Spanish operation, was arrested today. A total of three people were arrested in Spain and one in England, according to police.
The ring was busted during a joint international Europol operation called “Whitewall”police said.
The criminal network was washed away over 200 million euros inside in less than a year and a half, the up to 350,000 euros per dayaccording to the police.
Police said Morrissey had links to the Irish Kinahan gang, a drug-trafficking gang on Spain’s Costa del Sol, and “raised large sums of cash from criminal organizations operating in our country”.
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