49-year-old Evelin Banev “Brendo” was sentenced on Friday to 7 1/2 years in prison for laundering drug-dealing profits. He was accused of having laundered more than two million euros in drug-trafficking proceeds using a personal account belonging to a businessman shot dead in 2005. Banev was arrested last May in an international police operation, dubbed “Cocaine Kingpins”, involving Bulgarian, Italian, French, Swiss and Spanish authorities.

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