Rhineland-Palatinate Justice Minister Philip Fernis (FDP) described the raid in opposition to suspected fraud and cash laundering networks on 3 continents as a significant luck for the investigative government concerned. “It is probably the largest trial of its kind ever conducted in Rhineland-Palatinate,” he mentioned.
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All the way through the motion, 29 homes in Germany have been additionally searched. Greater than 250 emergency services and products have been deployed in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Hesse, Rhine-Palatinate, Saxony, Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, the Federal Prison Police Workplace (BKA) and different government in Wiesbaden mentioned. All the way through the world operation on Tuesday, 18 arrest warrants have been accomplished, 5 of them in Germany.
The origins of the investigation in Westerwald in Rhineland-Palatinate
BKA didn’t point out the selection of defendants in Germany just for tactical causes. In keeping with the general public prosecutor’s administrative center in Koblenz, the starting place of the five-year world investigation was once in Montabaur in Westerwald, Rhineland-Palatinate – the accused has a place of abode or industry there; the government didn’t need to remark intimately.
Fernis particularly thanked the competent central administrative center of the general public prosecution in Koblenz for his or her efforts. “Proceedings show that in the fight against more and more international economic crime, the specialization of investigative skills and good national and cross-border cooperation between law enforcement authorities are essential,” mentioned the minister.
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