中國工行在馬德里遭搜查
Agents of Spain’s national police force raided the Madrid offices of Industrial and Commercial bank of China as part of an investigation into Money laundering and tax fraud by Chinese gangs.
西班牙國民警衛隊(Guardia Civil)警員搜查了中國工商銀行(ICBC)馬德里分行辦公室，這是針對中國犯罪團伙洗錢和稅務欺詐的調查的一部分。
The Guardia Civil action, dubbed Operation Shadow and involving 100 law-enforcement officers, follows a wide-ranging police raid in May last year known as Operation Snake in which 60 businesses and houses were searched in Madrid, Barcelona, and Valencia. More than ㄠ洀 in cash was seized and 31 people detained as part of a contraband ring that imported untaxed goods to be sold at artificially low prices in Spain.
此次行動被稱爲“影子行動”(Operation Shadow)，有100名警員參與了行動。去年5月，西班牙警方曾展開名爲“蛇行動”(Operation Snake)的大規模搜查，位於馬德里、巴塞羅那和瓦倫西亞的60家企業和機構被搜查。那次搜查沒收了逾100萬歐元現金並拘留了一個走私團伙中的31人，他們將未納稅商品運送入境，以人爲低價在西班牙銷售。
The Guardia Civil initially estimated that the group involved in Operation Snake had committed import tax fraud worth ㄠ4m and helped launder 300m.
西班牙國民警衛隊最初估計，“蛇行動”調查的這個團伙參與了1400萬歐元的進口稅欺詐，並幫助洗錢3億歐元。
Spain’s tax authority and Europol were involved in Wednesday’s raids in which five employees of China’s largest bank were detained. Armed police guarded the doors of the bank on Wednesday in Madrid’s upscale Recoletos neighbourhood, not far from Spain’s National Library.
西班牙稅務當局以及歐洲刑警組織(Europol)參與了週三的搜查，中國工行5名員工被拘留。週三，有警察持槍把守着工行位於馬德里高檔社區雷科萊託斯(Recoletos)的分行大門，這裏距離西班牙國家圖書館(National Library)不遠。
In a statement released following the raid, the Guardia Civil said it was suspected the bank “helped introduce into the financial system funds earned through alleged crimes of smuggling, tax fraud and workers rights violations, making possible the transfer of the funds to China in a way that gave them the appearance of being sufficiently legal”.
在搜查後發佈的一份聲明中，西班牙國民警衛隊表示，懷疑工行“幫助將涉嫌走私、稅務欺詐以及侵犯勞工權利等犯罪行爲的所得引入了金融系統，使得這些資金能夠以表面看來足夠合法的方式轉賬到中國”。
The group of criminals used ICBC to transfer money made in the import scheme from Spain to China, the Guardia Civil said. So far, the national police says it has uncovered 40m in undeclared money laundered by the group through ICBC.
西班牙國民警衛隊表示，這個犯罪團伙利用了工行將這個入境計劃所得從西班牙轉賬到中國。西班牙國民警衛隊表示，目前已發現該犯罪團伙通過工行洗白了4000萬歐元未申報資金。
