21 minutes agoTrial of Albanians clearing 500m euros held this week
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)This Wednesday, the trial of 52-year-old Saranda Thanas Bako takes place in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. He was arrested on May 31st following a Greek and Europol police operation in Athens' “Glifaffe” neighbourhood. An arrest warrant had been issued by Dutch authorities for money laundering from [the...] traffic.
An arrest warrant had been issued by Dutch authorities to launder money from drug trafficking. “Baco was known to launder the money of the biggest criminals in the world. He was arrested on 31 May in Athens in Greece”.
He was extradited from Greece to the Netherlands in August. According to the Public Prosecutor in the Netherlands, Thanas Bako, is the central figure in a network of secret bankers. The doubt is that from Greece he controlled a network of couriers moving nearly 500m euros to criminals in the Netherlands. “He allegedly led a criminal organisation that launders money from large-scale crimes”, the Public Prosecutor said.
Investigation services believe Thanas Bako is known for involvement in the criminal bankers' network. This idea is supported by numerous messages of deciphered conversations that investigators received from Task Force Bank Banking. These are messages sent by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) given to Dutch authorities.
