Posted on 12/03/2019 8:59:53 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
European countries have become so saturated with cocaine that the region has now become a hub for exporting the drug to markets such as Australia, Turkey and Russia, according to new data.
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Sherlock Holmes would be proud!
The Germans have started recently talking about the amount of money in the drug distribution network, and the massive amount of money-laundering required. So the Lebanese gangs that get heavily into this...move their money back to Beirut, then flush it via Cyprus banks...back into fake companies and onto Germany...where they buy apartment buildings.
So they reinvested it into German property, and take the profits off the apartment buildings back to Lebanon a second time.
Long-term, they are set to make billions per year...just off the legit real estate game.
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