{"id":293897,"date":"2026-02-12T08:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T08:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/293897\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T08:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T08:54:10","slug":"spanish-police-file-sets-out-alleged-links-between-aristocrats-dublin-fintech-and-drug-cartels-money-laundering-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/293897\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish police file sets out alleged links between aristocrat\u2019s Dublin fintech and drug cartel\u2019s money laundering operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Report alleges Irish firm was connected to an unlicensed digital bank which enabled cocaine gang to move money from Europe to South America\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Francisco de Borbon makes a phone call outside court in Madrid, after being granted bail. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IB Francisco de Borbon.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Francisco de Borbon makes a phone call outside court in Madrid, after being granted bail. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Just days before Spanish police arrived at his Marbella villa, Francisco de Borbon was celebrating his birthday on a luxury Nile cruise in Egypt with his family, before flying home for dinner with friends at a fashionable Costa del Sol restaurant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The jet-set aristocrat \u2013 who is a distant cousin of the Spanish king \u2013 was already preparing for his next trip, to Athens the following week to meet Pavlos, the Crown Prince of Greece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Report alleges Irish firm was connected to an unlicensed digital bank which enabled cocaine gang to move money&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,2846],"class_list":{"0":"post-293897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-spain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}