Posted on 07/20/2006 10:07:31 AM PDT by joan
Police have broken up a criminal gang based in Torrevieja, Alicante, but which operated in the provinces of Alicante, Málaga, Barcelona, Jaén and Madrid.
18 Kosovo-Albanians have been arrested, in connection with several thefts from industrial estates, often by making a hole in the wall.
The police operation started when the Organised Crime Section ECO of the Civil Guard in Alicante, detected the group of man in Torrevieja who were spending large sums of money with no visible income.
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What kept Spanish police so long?
I remember report in Spanish papers several years ago, about commando style attacks of this gang on industrial malls netting tens of millions of dollars. A strike team would climb through the roof, dynamite company safe and disappear. they used tools only once.
The thing here to consider is what the money was used for, i.e. whether they were a part of larger terrorist network.
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