The Uruguayan Justice ordered the prosecution of four officers of the Navy, including the former Supreme Navy Admiral Commander Juan Fernandez Maggio, accused of doing fraud.
The former commander of the Navy, Vice Admiral (r) Juan Fernandez Maggio, was prosecuted with prison as coauthor of “an ongoing crime of fraud” for [...]
The Cartel Alliance between “Sinaloa” and ”La Familia” is strongly anchored in five states of the mexican Pacific Coast. The recent death of druglord Nacho Coronel consolidated the leadership of “Chapo” Guzman within the Sinaloa Cartel and its alliance with “La Familia”. The mexican authorities believe that these groups control now the inputs of materials for [...]
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A judge in Peru granted freedom to a drug dealer and then went to drink beer with him in a bar in the northeastern city of Chachapoyas, where he was caught “in fraganti” by judicial authorities, according to a video released Wednesday in Lima.
Judge Edgar Víctor Quispe Gomez, criminal judge of Chachapoyas, about 790 kilometers north of [...]
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In a recent visit to the region, the Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton stated that “the U.S. is committed to citizen safety in Central America…We are doing everything we can in the fight against corruption and impunity, in providing the equipment and the support that law enforcement and the military require, and helping to [...]
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The World Bank consultant and specialized in Mexican Border Affairs, Antonio de la Oza, said in an interview that the great challenge of customs in the country and the world are fighting terrorism, laundering and drug trafficking.
He said he has visited some offices in the country, and “they work very well operationally speaking, safety and, excluding [...]
Brasília – The brazilian police said that due to drug enforcement at the border north and west-central of Brazil, there is a change in the geography of cocaine trafficking on the continent. While Argentina and Uruguay become candidates for next targets of organized crime as hubs for sending cocaine to Europe and Africa, Santa Catarina [...]
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A Supreme Court decision siding with two imprisoned former corporate executives is another reminder to a U.S. public angered by financial scandals that prosecuting white-collar criminal cases can be a lot tougher than it looks, according to Reuters.
Federal prosecutors, [...]
BUENOS AIRES – Former Argentine Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo was indicted in an investigation on the sale at a “miserable price ” of a public area of the Rural Society in the 1990s, said on Thursday a judicial source.
Federal Judge Sergio Torres also decreed an embargo of assets of Mr. Cavallo at 10 million pesos [...]
“The main drug kingpin of the criminal serbian group Saric has not been yet arrested, that may mean that he has been here,” said yesterday the Minister of Home Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, Ivica Dacic, after meeting with Uruguayan Interior Minister Eduardo Bonomi.
The two Secretaries of State agreed to sign a memorandum of cooperation between [...]
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A suspected Colombian drug trafficker who operated under the radar for years in Argentina was described Friday as a ringleader capable of giving direct orders to Colombia’s most-wanted cocaine kingpins and with close ties to Mexico’s feared Sinaloa cartel.
Luis Caicedo Velandia was arrested as he walked near a Buenos Aires shopping [...]
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