FOUR people have been charged in Melbourne over a $15 million money laundering scheme police say had been funding organised crime across the country.
Officers from Australian Federal Police (AFP), along with Victoria Police, made the arrests on Friday morning after a three-year investigation.
Police say three men and a woman are accused of helping run a Victorian money transfer business that was using two sets of books – one of which is alleged to have documented the laundering of proceeds of crime through international cash transfers.
Several transactions in 2009 and 2010 have been allegedly linked to an organised crime group involved in importing and distributing drugs within Australia.
“Crime groups will use any means possible to mobilise their cash,” AFP Manager Criminal Assets Ian McCartney said in a statement.
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