AMSTERDAM Police have arrested 49 suspected members of a
cyber crime syndicate in Spain, Poland and Italy who are suspected of stealing
million of euros from European bank accounts, Europol said on Wednesday.
Police raided 58 locations as part of the investigation into
online "phishing" scams used to transfer money from bank accounts
across Europe, the Hague-based European police agency said in a statement.
Officials in Belgium and the United Kingdom assisted the
investigation and operation, which was conducted on Tuesday.
"The parallel investigations revealed international
fraud totalling 6 million euro accumulated within a very short time," the
statement said.
The suspects, mainly from Nigeria and Cameroon, transferred
the illicit profits outside of the European Union through a sophisticated
network of money laundering transactions.
Reuters
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