Interpol reported this Thursday the arrest of 5,100 people in nearly thirty countries during a new operation against the fraudulent football bettingin which they entered $59 million in illegal income.
The operation, called SOGA X and in which Spain participated, focused on illicit bets made during the last European Championship in Germanybetween last June and July, and This has also uncovered cases of human trafficking..
This happened in the Philippines, where local authorities, together with Interpol, dismantled a network that operated in a camouflaged manner in a legally established betting house in which 400 Filipino victims and 250 others from six other countries.
The international organization based in Lyon also highlighted the dismantle a criminal network that operated from Greece commit crimes by creating false identities using stolen identity documents. This happened in Spain, among other countries.
“Illegal betting generates huge profits for criminal networks, such asmoney grabbing, human trafficking or corruption. The success of SOGA 1,700 billion eurosare also closely linked to match-fixing, the organization warned.
