A two-year investigation into a money laundering scheme, involving €1.7 million of goods being seized, has been concluded with the arrest of a 53-year-old local businessman in the Toulouse area.
Mohammed C, as he is being called in French press, 53, from Auvillar, just north of Toulouse, is thought to have been head of an organised gang.
Over the past two years of investigation, authorities have seized a yacht and a lamborghini, as well as two night clubs, a bar-restaurant and two properties in the Toulouse area. Suspicions about Mohammed C’s income were first aroused when the tax office realised his declared income was far too small for the luxuries he had bought himself.
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