{"id":34365,"date":"2025-06-30T12:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T12:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=34365"},"modified":"2025-06-30T12:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T12:02:11","slug":"spanish-police-arrest-5-in-suspected-540m-crypto-fraud-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=34365","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Police Arrest 5 in Suspected $540M Crypto Fraud Operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Spanish police arrested five members of a suspected crypto fraud operation that allegedly laundered 460 million euros ($540 million) stolen from over 5,000 victims.<\/p>\n<p>The bust, carried out by Guarda Civil, the armed wing of the country&#8217;s law enforcement agencies, saw three arrests from searches in the Canary Islands and two in Madrid on June 25.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation was supported Europol, as well as police forces from Estonia, France and the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The criminal network raised funds through cash withdrawals, bank transfers and crypto payments, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europol.europa.eu\/media-press\/newsroom\/news\/crypto-investment-fraud-ring-dismantled-in-spain-after-defrauding-5-000-victims-worldwide\">Europol said in a statement on Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators suspect the organization of having set up a corporate and banking network out of Hong Kong to receive, store and transfer criminal funds through accounts in different names and in different exchanges.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is still in progress, Europol added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish police arrested five members of a suspected crypto fraud operation that allegedly laundered 460 million euros ($540 million) stolen from over 5,000 victims. The bust, carried out by Guarda Civil, the armed wing of the country&#8217;s law enforcement agencies, saw three arrests from searches in the Canary Islands and two in Madrid on June [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-34365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}