THE OWNER of a leather goods shop in Torremolinos laundered some 13 million euros in drug money

 

THE OWNER of a leather goods shop in Torremolinos laundered some 13 million euros in drug money, said Guardia Civil officials last week, announcing the break-up of what they described as one of the biggest drug-trafficking and money-laundering networks in Europe. In all 46 people were arrested in operation ‘Túnida’, carried out by the Guardia Civil, the Belgian police and Europol under the coordination of Eurojust, the EU’s judicial cooperation unit. The network, formed mainly of Moroccans, included a group in northern Africa in charge of cultivating and processing the hashish. Other gang members would smuggle it into Spain from Morocco via Zodiac-style inflatable boats.