An Albanian man accused of laundering €500 million of criminal groups in Europe has been extradited from Greece to the Netherlands.
It is about the 52-year-old citizen from Saranda Thanas Bako, who was arrested in May this year during a Greek police operation in co-operation with foreign authorities in Greece's "Glyfadha" neighbourhood.
"A notorious money launderer who laundered the dirty money of the world's biggest criminals was arrested on May 31 in Athens, Greece," europol said in a statement.
"He took the stage from the Underground Banking Taskforce (TF-UB) in 2022 after an investigation showed that his criminal organisation had moved around €500,000,000," dutch media said.
According to the investigation, Bako used various monetary applications, including cryptocurrencies to launder large amounts of money coming from cocaine trafficking.
During the arrest, he was also found valuables such as three hours of luxury brands worth hundreds of thousands of euros.
Bako is also known by the other name Athanasios Sebastian Bako.