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Romanian criminal gang broken up on the Costa del Sol
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By h.b. - Mar 10, 2007 - 12:01 PM
55 people were arrested and 24 premises searched along the Costa del Sol
The National Police has broken up what they are calling the largest network of fraudsters ever seen on the Costa del Sol.
The gang had as many as seven local workshops to carry out their criminal activity. In two of the workshops 250 kilo hydraulic presses were found, used for the pressing of false 2 € coins.
50 people from Romania, and five from Spain, have been arrested and a total of 24 searches were carried out of premises in Gaucín (3), Manilva (1), Estepona (1), Benalmádena (8), Fuengirola (6), Marbella (1), Málaga capital (2), Cártama (1) and Alhaurín el Grande (1).
Police say the gang was divided up into separate ‘brigades’ dedicated to the falsification of credit cards, robberies from homes and hotels, frauds on the Internet and elsewhere, and drug trafficking.
Much of the stolen goods were then later sold elsewhere with the group collecting half the income.
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Romanian criminal gang broken up on the Costa del Sol
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By h.b. - Mar 10, 2007 - 12:01 PM
Part of the material recovered by the police on the Costa del Sol - Photo EFE
The National Police has broken up what they are calling the largest network of fraudsters ever seen on the Costa del Sol.
The gang had as many as seven local workshops to carry out their criminal activity. In two of the workshops 250 kilo hydraulic presses were found, used for the pressing of false 2 € coins.
50 people from Romania, and five from Spain, have been arrested and a total of 24 searches were carried out of premises in Gaucín (3), Manilva (1), Estepona (1), Benalmádena (8), Fuengirola (6), Marbella (1), Málaga capital (2), Cártama (1) and Alhaurín el Grande (1).
Police say the gang was divided up into separate ‘brigades’ dedicated to the falsification of credit cards, robberies from homes and hotels, frauds on the Internet and elsewhere, and drug trafficking.
Much of the stolen goods were then later sold elsewhere with the group collecting half the income.
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Chiclanero
11 Mar 2007, 22:25
11 Mar 2007, 22:25
What not a surprise to find that all this trash that Spain has allowed or
had to allow into the country (after the opening of borders, encouragement
for more Eastern European Organised Crime Gangs to join the European Union
etc.) consist of all the riff-raff that the said country wants to get rid
of in the first place? They move their Criminal Operations to wherever the
grass is greenest and then thieve,rob,assault and generally bite the hand
that feeds them as a way of saying thank you.It really is a toss-up to find
who are the worst of this scum, the Albanians perhaps or is it the
Rumanians who deposit their unclean females on the streets of most towns
and cities in Spain to beg and annoy people?
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