MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police announced on Saturday they had seized a criminal gang that had printed credit cards, headed by a man convicted of helping to finance the Sept. 11 attacks.
Police said they arrested 19 people, including a 49-year-old Algerian man who had served a prison sentence in Spain for using forged credit cards to help finance the 2001 attacks in the United States.
Spanish police did not reveal the name of the Algerian who led the gang.
All 19 members of the network were arrested in the Spanish capital, Madrid.
The group sent 500,000 euros ($ 569,000) on fake credit cards made by copying real cards before the network disintegrated, police said.
