Police have arrested 178 people in 12 countries in swoops on those suspected of forming part of an international crime gang with a large base in Spain, the Interior Ministry said today.
Co-ordinated raids took place in France, Italy, Germany, the United States, Ireland, Romania, Australia, Sweden, Greece, Finland and Hungary, as well as Spain, the [...]

A man from the Republic of Ireland has been arrested with his two sons in Spain, suspected of masterminding an international drugs, guns and money laundering crime empire.
The man, in his 50s, was detained in the Malaga area as Irish authorities co-ordinated a series of raids across Europe with counterparts in Spain, Belgium and the [...]

Scottish actor Sean Connery, 79, and his wife Micheline have been summoned for questioning by a Spanish court in connection with a money-laundering case, judicial sources said Friday.
Connery is one of nearly 30 people indicted in the case involving urban planning in the holiday resort of Marbella.
The judicial sources did not reveal details about the [...]

A suspected paedophile on the run from police has been arrested in a bar in Spain after Brits recognised him from a TV appeal.
Glen Tranter, 40, featured on the BBC Crimewatch show on Monday night.
He had fled the UK and was on the run in Spain, but he was spotted in a bar in Benalmadena [...]

Spanish police say they have detained a man suspected of robbing 10 pharmacies at gunpoint, taking their money and all available boxes of Viagra.
Police in Madrid began receiving reports of the thefts in January.
Victims said the “only objective” of the lone gunman was to take boxes of Viagra and cash.
The authorities suspect the 43-year-old man [...]

Spanish police have smashed a counterfeiting ring that fed around 30,000 euros in forged notes into the economy each week, arresting nine mainly Spaniards and Senegalese, police said Friday.
The network was “one of the most active given its weekly capacity for introducing counterfeit notes,” police said in a statement.
The 20- and 50-euro denomination notes were [...]

Police swooped on a gang of burglars targeting holiday homes on Spain´s Costa Blanca – and found they had arrested a Serbian war criminal accused of more than 100 killings.
“Monster of Grbavica” Veselin Vlahovic, 40, was in a top security jail in Madrid last night after a judge ruled that proceedings should start for his [...]

Collaborative cybercrime investigation results in three arrests, more pending
Personal and financial data compromised from massive cyber attack impacting nearly 13 million unique IP addresses, 50 percent of Fortune 1000 companies
Preliminary damages estimated to be in the millions of dollars
According to IT security firms Panda Security and Defence Intelligence, the Mariposa botnet, a massive network of [...]