Police said the raids were carried out as part of an investigation into attempted murder launched after a former Hells Angels member was shot at in Cologne at the end of October. In the other set of raids in NRW, more than 250 officers searched properties belonging to a rocker group in Cologne and the nearby town of Pulheim. The gangs are suspected of having raked in more than €27 million through certificates. German companies are suspected of being involved by paying these companies for services they never provided to bolster their credibility. Italian justice authorities accuse the gangs of having formed fake companies that claimed to have carried out energy-saving renovations on houses without this ever happening. Raids were also carried out in Italy, Switzerland and the southern German states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, German news agency DPA reported, with Italian financial police saying they had arrested 22 people and confiscated some €41 million ($46 million) in real estate, cryptocurrencies and on bank accounts. More written details were set for publication later on Tuesday. The European Union's police agency, Europol, was also involved several arrest warrants had been executed in NRW. The raids took place as part of an international operation. German police carried out raids on Tuesday in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) in one operation targeting international money-laundering gangs and another focused on a local biker group.Ī number of sites suspected of connection to money laundering were searched, state prosecutors in the western German city of Duisburg confirmed to DW.
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