POLICE from six European countries arrested at least 69 people on Monday in a swoop on a 'perfectly structured' Georgian criminal gang which stole and trafficked goods around the continent.
Most of the arrests were in Spain - the gang's nerve centre - as well as Germany and Austria, but suspects were also picked up in Switzerland, Italy and France, a Spanish judicial official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
The suspects, who led deliberately low-key lives while allegedly coordinating crime, were held on suspicion of drugs and weapons trafficking, money laundering, extortion and conspiracy to murder, the source said.
The judicial official said 24 of those held were arrested in Spain, most of them in Barcelona and Valencia, while Swiss authorities said they had arrested 11.
'The arrest of the criminal organisation's heads deals a harsh blow to Georgian criminality in Europe,' said a statement from the Swiss prosecutor's office, adding that 120 Swiss police had been involved in the operation.
- Sitiemlia , Singapore.
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