TOOWOOMBA detectives have helped with the investigation and arrest of 20 people allegedly involved in a million dollar money laundering operation.
They worked with officers from the Queensland Police Service Fraud and Corporate Crime Group, Gold Coast police and Australia’s financial intelligence unit and anti-money laundering regulator AUSTRAC as a part of Operation Kilo Dictate.
The operation targeted an international crime syndicate involved in the laundering of fraudulently obtained money from Queensland to Europe.
It will be alleged that during a nine week period from February to April 2012, about one million dollars, acquired through card-skimming and credit card fraud offences committed in Europe and Australia, was laundered back to Romania and the United Kingdom, from people in South East Queensland.
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