BRUNSSUM - Justice has made arrests in the upper world for the first time in the investigation into the Limburg real estate fraud surrounding Kerkraden resident Joep J. Last Thursday, a Brunssum couple operating a real estate agency and mortgage/assurance office were arrested. The couple is suspected of money laundering, forgery, tax fraud and hemp cultivation. In 2008, the suspects bought from Joep J. for 161,000 euros a building in Brunssum in which disco Zathura is located. However, the tax value (WOZ) was 300,000 higher. The prosecution suspects that Joep J. was partly paid blackly. In this way, money would have been laundered. The prosecution has seized their two properties. The tax authorities have seized the other possessions of the couple released Tuesday, such as their household effects and cars. Also, the twosome also received additional tax assessments of 500,000 euros. Justice wants to deprive them of assets they allegedly acquired through criminal means.