Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch detained in Spain in money laundering investigation

Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch is understood to have been detained in Spain as part of an international police investigation into suspected money laundering.

Multiple security sources have told the Irish Examiner that the 61-year-old head of the Hutch family was detained by the Guardia Civil during ten searches in Lanzarote on Wednesday morning.

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