Spanish police 取り去る／解体する Europe's largest 麻薬 'bank'
MADRID, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Spanish police said on Friday they had 取り去る／解体するd a 犯罪の ギャング（団） they believe was the largest financier of 麻薬 trafficking in Europe.
The ギャング（団）, which operated out of a restaurant in an 産業の park outside Madrid, is believed to have laundered about 300 million euros ($292 million) a year, police said in an emailed 声明.
The 犯罪の （犯罪の）一味 was the largest such ギャング（団） in Europe, ーに関して／ーの点でs of laundered 基金s when compared to Europol's 調査s, a Spanish police spokesperson said.
In （警察の）手入れ，急襲s 連係させた with Europol in several places in Spain, police officers 掴むd more than 400,000 euros in cash and cryptocurrency accounts 価値（がある） 1.5 million euros, 同様に as 11 高級な cars and 重要な 量s of cannabis, Europol said in a separate 声明.
Europol said that in total police had 掴むd nearly 3 million euros over the course of the 調査.
During 連係させた （警察の）手入れ，急襲s carried out on Sept. 27 in 21 場所s across Spain, 含むing Malaga and Toledo, police 逮捕（する）d 32 people.
The 犯罪の 網状組織, which おもに 構成するd Syrian and Colombian 国家のs and began operating in 2020, 行為／法令／行動するd as an informal bank, 供給するing 財政上の services to 麻薬 trafficking ギャング（団）s in more than 20 countries.
The "bank" used an informal money 移転 system popular in the Middle East known as "hawala" which doesn't 要求する the physical movement of money.
Instead, hawala 売買業者s in different 場所s keep a ledger of credit and debit 処理／取引s, 許すing money to be passed between 仲買人s through a handshake, a piece of paper or on 信用. Police said the 網状組織 also used cryptocurrencies to 移転 large sums of money.
（弁護士の）依頼人s would visit the restaurant in Fuenlabrada each day to collect cash that was 扱うd by Chinese 国家のs based in the 地元の area, police said.
($1 = 1.0280 euros) (報告（する）／憶測ing by Charlie Devereux Editing by Inti Landauro and 示す Potter)
