Former Doorman's Mark Cartel 'Enforcer' Arrested at Costa Del Sol Home for Gang Money

Detectives claim to have taken down Spain's largest international criminal organization specializing in cleaning up dirty money by arresting Johnny Morrissey at his Costa home del Sol

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A 'key member' of a cartel allegedly helped his crime bosses launder a staggering €350,000 (£302,000) a day, police said on Thursday.

Detectives claim to have dismantled Spain's largest international criminal organization specializing in cleaning up dirty money by arresting Johnny Morrissey at his Costa del Sol home.

They estimated that the Irish passport holder, a former Rochdale doorman identified earlier this year by US authorities as a Kinahan enforcer, could have laundered more than two hundred million euros (173 hundred million pounds ) in the past 18 months.

The criminal organization is run by an Irish Mafia family and Spanish detectives have revealed they believe the money was not physically moved out of Spain, but spread around the world to using an ancient money transfer system called Hawala.

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A Civil Guard spokesman, in initial police comments following the arrest of three people, including Morrissey and his wife Nicola, near Marbella on Monday, said: "The Civil Guard, through of an operation dubbed Whitewall, broke the most important international criminal organization that operated in Spain dedicated to money laundering.

"In a little over a year and a half, they could have bleached more than two hundred mi...