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Barcelona restaurant at centre of money laundering probe.

Police suspect money was laundered through the Japanese restaurant.
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Police in Spain on Tuesday detained the son of Kiev's colourful former mayor Leonid Chernovetsky on suspicion of leading a ring that laundered money for Ukrainian organised crime groups.

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Stepan Chernovetsky, whose father served as mayor of the Ukrainian capital between 2006 and 2012, was arrested along with 10 other people in Barcelona, sources close to the investigation said.

The ring is suspected of having laundered over €10 million ($11 million) through a network of companies in Cyprus and the Virgin Islands that bought real estate in Spain, anti-corruption prosecutors said in a statement.

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