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69 Russian Mafia suspects held after police swoop

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Mar 16, 2010 09:50 Moscow Time
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The scale of the Russian Mafia’s activity in Europe was dramatically exposed on Monday, when police forces in six EU countries arrested scores of suspects allegedly involved in drug smuggling, money laundering, arms-dealing and contract killing. Hundreds of police in Spain, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France and Italy swooped on dozens of sites, arresting 69 people, most of them ethnic Georgians, news agencies have reported.

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