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Ibiza Clubs Space and Privilege Searched Just Days After Amnesia Raid

The investigations are reportedly part of a countrywide operation.
Space Ibiza. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

Days after Ibiza nightclub Amnesia was raided twice over by Spanish police, two more of the island's popular establishments have been searched.

As local news outlet Diario de Ibiza reports, authorities and officials from Spain's national Tax Agency (AEAT) entered Space and Privilege around 6 am this morning (July 8). Reportedly, the searches are part of a countrywide investigation, called "Operation Chopin," which looks at finances within the nightlife sector with a focus on potential fraud. In all, 87 clubs are to be inspected, four of them located in Ibiza.

The searches are allegedly not related to the incident at Amnesia, in which police arrested four people (including club owner Martin Ferrer, his son, the club's general/business manager, and the club's accountant) and raided their homes in an investigation of "crimes against the Treasury," according to the Diario. The local publication also reported that money amounting to €2 million has since been found in the club, along with a cash counting machine.