Spain Cracks Down On Money Laundering by Ulrika Lomas, for LawAndTax-News.com, Brussels 08 June 2005 The Spanish police announced last week that as part of the government's clampdown on money laundering, they had arrested nine Spaniards, three Ukrainians and a Russian accused of laundering criminal cash via various European and Caribbean offshore and onshore jurisdictions. According to reports, assets raised in Eastern Europe by extortion and other crimes were transferred to Spain and Andorra via bank accounts in the Netherland Antilles, the Bahamas, Belize and the British Virgin Islands. Investigators additionally probed around 60 bank accounts in Spain and mainland Europe. .

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