EU LAW ENFORCEMENT RAMPS UP EFFORTS AGAINST MONEY MULES
June 1st, 2018
Police forces European Union (EU)-wide are running targeted campaigns against so-called ‘money mules’ until December, according to EU police agency Europol, which says that the number of cross-border investigations into such third-party facilitation of money movement “continues to soar”. In the past two years alone, the European Money Mule Action weeks have identified over 2,000 mules, resulting in 400 arrests in these international hits coordinated by Europol, EU judicial agency Eurojust and the European Banking Federation. More than 90% of money mule ...
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