Police in the Canary Islands have chalked up a major success in the fight against organised crime with the arrest of a network behind fraudulent property sales totalling millions of euros. A total of 19 members of the gang were arrested in swoops in Tenerife and two of the ringleaders remanded in prison pending further investigations and a likely trial. According to police, the gang identified houses and apartments belonging to old, vulnerable or even deceased persons and moved into the properties, changing the locks and then forging ownership papers which they......

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