The police conducted searches in various cantons in an international money laundering case. According to the Belgian authorities, five men have been arrested. They would have laundered money from the cocaine trade and earned about 9.5 million euros.
The house searches in Switzerland took place last week, the federal police service (Fedpol) announced on Thursday. At the same time, raids took place in various places in Belgium and Great Britain, according to the Antwerp public prosecutor’s office.
The arrested are five men between the ages of 33 and 51. One of the men has been released on parole.
During the house searches, about 700,000 euros in cash, a money counting machine, a vacuum machine, several luxury watches, weapons and mobile phones were found. The detective also seized 10 vehicles.
The investigation into the case began in 2020, after it became known that a Belgian had laundered large sums of money with the import of cocaine. (aeg/sda)
Soource :Watson
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