Translated text:
The Civil Guard has dismantled a network that laundered drug money using the “black market” method in an operation in which twenty-four people have been arrested from different nationalities, the boss in Venezuela and the other in Spain. This method of selling euros to people from countries that have restrictions of supply of this type of currency.
Because international trade is based on the euro and the dollar, many entrepreneurs and others in some countries with strong supply constraints of this coin go to the black market to purchase a much higher price, reports the Civil Guard.
Of those arrested in Spain there are eight Venezuelans, as many Colombians, two Spaniards, two Guatemalan, an Ecuadorian, a Portuguese and a Lithuanian and operation have been involving nearly four million euros in cash and receipts of income and transfers fifteen million.
This is the Philosophers operation has been performed in collaboration with police forces of Venezuela, Portugal, Italy and Holland.
Link to the original news (in Polish): Veinticuatro detenidos por blanquear dinero de droga mediante «black market» (translated in English: click here)