Detectives claim they have smashed the most important international criminal organisation in Spain specialising in cleaning dirty cash
The Scottish wife of a suspected gangland money launderer has been arrested along with her husband on the Costa Del Sol. by arresting Johnny Morrissey at his Costa del Sol home.
Mr Morrissey, identified by US authorities in April as a key aide of the Kinahan Organised Crime Gang, has been held on suspicion of money laundering at his Costa del Sol home. The police allege that his wife's Glasgow-based Nero Drinks was used as a front and she was also held although she was released after a court appearance on Wednesday.
On Thursday, the Civil Guard released footage of the bald-headed Morrisey sat bare-chested in a pair of tropical shorts in a chair as police searched his home. Officers were also filmed putting wads of confiscated cash through counting machines and searching cars at a separate address which were allegedly used to move money and drugs in hidden compartments.
Referring to Johnny Morrissey, although he wasn’t named in a Spanish police statement about the operation, the Civil Guard said: “The main target in Spain devoted himself to collecting large amounts of money in cash from criminal organisations operating in our country and handing it through the Hawala system to organised criminal groups in other countries and vice-versa.
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