{"id":669301,"date":"2025-05-15T08:10:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T05:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/europol-helps-dismantle-23m-mafia-crypto-bank\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T08:10:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T05:10:47","slug":"europol-helps-dismantle-23m-mafia-crypto-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/europol-helps-dismantle-23m-mafia-crypto-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Europol helps dismantle $23M \u2018mafia crypto bank\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Europol and Spanish law enforcement broke a money laundering network that handled over $23 million for migrant smugglers and drug traffickers.<\/p>\n

European law enforcement in January arrested 17 suspects of a \u201cmafia crypto bank\u201d who are said to have laundered over 21 million euros ($23.5 million) in crypto for criminal entities in China and the Middle East.<\/p>\n

The money laundering services were allegedly carried out on behalf of other criminal networks engaged in migrant smuggling and drug trafficking, Europol said<\/a> in a May 14 statement.<\/p>\n

Spanish authorities said<\/a> the criminal organization ran a secret informal money transfer system called hawala and was often compensated in crypto.<\/p>\n

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Europol and Spanish law enforcement broke a money laundering network that handled over $23 million for migrant smugglers and drug traffickers. European law enforcement in January arrested 17 suspects of a \u201cmafia crypto bank\u201d who are said to have laundered over 21 million euros ($23.5 million) in crypto for criminal entities in China and the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":669302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=90,width=1200\/https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2025-05\/0196d15c-1793-793d-b3ee-6dbf872689df","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74894,74932,141322,71125,59226,33897,14026],"class_list":["post-669301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-blockchain","tag-crimes","tag-europol","tag-austria","tag-belgium","tag-money-laundering","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}