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Independent: Britain’s contribution to fighting Russian organized crime is ‘less than negative,’

Published June 15, 2018 at 6:08 pm

Spanish anti-corruption prosecutor Jose Grinda Gonzalez (R) speaks with a Catalan autonomous police officer (known as Mosso d'Esquadra) as he arrives at the Generalitat de Catalonia, in Barcelona on July 20, 2017 as Spanish Guardia Civil members are searching the building for documents related to the corruption plot of 3%. The Spanish Civil Guard has requested information today in the Generalitat, the Parliament and the Department of Justice on the corruption plot of 3%.

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Britain’s contribution to fighting Russian organized crime is “less than negative”, one of Europe’s leading prosecutors has said.

Jose Grinda, hailed as the man who “brought down the Russian mafia in Spain”, condemned the UK’s lack of cooperation in a fight which has gone increasingly global.