More than 200 people arrested for money laundering
In a worldwide operation against embezzlement, police from some 30 countries identified thousands of victims online
According to the European agency Europol, police from at least 30 countries arrested more than 200 people for money laundering which affected 3,800 victims online who innocently served as “financial mules“.
The investigations went depth on the case after having started last November an operation that took place in 29 countries in Europe, in the United States and Australia, where more than 1,000 criminal investigations were opened and many of them are still ongoing.
Around 650 banks contributed to the declaration of thousands of “fraudulent money mule transactions and avoided a total loss of 12.9 million euros,” according to the European agency, who also said that the cooperation unit participated in the operation judicial Eurojust and the European Banking Federation (FBE) as well as 386 recruiters of which 228 were arrested.
“They participate, often without knowing it, in money laundering activities by receiving and transferring illegally obtained money between bank accounts and / or countries,” the agency said.
The mission of recruiters is to convince their victims to open bank accounts under the pretext of sending or receiving funds. Normally, this is what these criminals hidden in the network do and are permanently active in social networks.
K.Villarroel
Source: bancaynegocios
