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03.08 - Spain Today News 31 August 2026
Spain Today has investigated the hidden financial networks of organised crime. Our team tracked hawala, an ancient, informal money transfer system that bypasses conventional banking to move billions of euros annually across borders. While millions of people rely on hawala to send vital, low-cost remittances to families in crisis zones—such as Gaza, where banks are non-existent—it has become a critical "crime-as-a-service" backbone for money laundering, tax evasion, and terrorism. Key cases include a massive European network named "The Merchants of Great Europe," which traded hundreds of…
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