Jun 14 2008
Yury Salikov, one of the suspected heads of the gang AFP PHOTO/STR
Four of twenty suspected Russian mafia members arrested on Friday will remain in Spanish custody after questioning, according to the El Mundo newspaper. Sixteen others have yet to be quizzed, but Spanish law requires that they be charged within 48 hours of arrest. Continue Reading »
Jun 13 2008
Madrid - Spanish police Friday detained several people in swoops on Russian arms traffickers and money launderers, police sources said. The judge who ordered the operation had issued 25 arrest orders. The detainees included four people regarded as ring leaders, according to radio reports. Continue Reading »
May 29 2008
Collado-Villalba — An Italian man with alleged links to the Calabrian Mafia, the ‘Ndrangheta, was arrested in Spain on Thursday carrying four kilogrammes of cocaine worth an estimated 600,000 euros. Continue Reading »
Apr 21 2008
The arrest took place in a Benidorm hotel and the woman, named only as A.H. will appear in the National Court in Madrid shortly. Continue Reading »
Aug 22 2007
Massimo Giuseppe Chindamo
Learco Chindamo’s father, a Mafia gangster known as the Acid Man, is in a Spanish jail awaiting trial for murdering his ex-girlfriend.
Massimo Giuseppe Chindamo was arrested last year after the brutal stabbing of the Venezuelan woman in Gran Canaria. Continue Reading »
Aug 10 2007
MADRID (EFE) – The man often dubbed Spain’s public enemy number one for his alleged raids on more than 30 banks denies killing three policemen, his lawyer said on Thursday.
Jaime Jimenez Arbe, who is being held in a high-security prison in Portugal where he was arrested at the end of last month, admits to being a “professional” bank robber, trained by the mafia in Marseille. Continue Reading »
Aug 03 2007
In a major Costa del Sol operation the Guardia Civil have struck a criminal organisation linked to the Camorra (the Naples mafia), which provided cover for other European criminal groups as well as trafficking drugs. The alleged criminal had built up a financial network for money laundering purposes. Continue Reading »
Jul 19 2007
Planells accused of bribery after giving immigration documents to Russian gangs
THE Government’s former number two in Catalunya has been arrested on suspicion of involvement with an Eastern European mafia gang. Continue Reading »
Jul 17 2007
Former Barcelona MP, Eduardo Planells, was arrested yesterday by National Police officers in Barcelona on charges of bribery, prevarication and fraud. Specifically, he is accused of providing work and residence permits to members of the Russian mafia arrested as part of the ‘Avispa’ anti-corruption investigation in 2005 and 2006. Continue Reading »
Mar 31 2007
Spanish police have captured one of the suspected leaders of the biggest Cuban-American criminal ring, seizing assets worth more than 20 million euros (27 million dollars), police said Friday. Continue Reading »
