$10 million frozen: Ten people arrested across Auckland in money-laundering probe
17 Mar, 2021 02:34 AM
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Twelve search warrants have been executed in Auckland today by police as part of a money-laundering probe. Photo / File
NZ Herald
Police have carried out 12 search warrants across Auckland this morning, making 10 arrests and frozen more than $10 million in assets - including luxury homes.
The action comes as part of an investigation by the Financial Crime Group into money laundering and other offences.
Detective inspector Lloyd Schmid said this is the third in a trilogy of operations run in 2020 and 2021.
The three operations have seen a total of $21m in assets frozen and 28 people arrested.
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Police seized eight luxury cars when they carried out search warrants across Auckland as part of Operation Martinez. This video was originally published in November 2020.
Cars, houses, motorbikes and boats – you name it, the police have seized it. Every year criminals are stripped of hundreds of millions of dollars in luxury items, cash, even cryptocurrency, as police ramp up the use of the Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) Act. And those millions made through criminal activity are winding up in the hands of a variety of agencies, including those who help repair communities or people damaged by drugs. In 2020, $206,404,517.12 worth of assets had been seized by police by November, compared with $122,768,565 in 2019.