Former drug capo Benjamin Arellano Felix pleaded guilty this week to federal racketeering and money-laundering conspiracy charges, putting an end to a long case against Mexico’s formerly most powerful organized crime group. Arellano Felix, 58, the former leader of the Arellano Felix drug cartel, converted Tijuana into a major trafficking route to the U.S. during a [...]
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An American military aircraft helped monitor the deadly 2010 raid by Jamaican security forces to capture a fugitive crime boss, that country’s prime minister has admitted, in spite of earlier denials by his government. The U.S. P-3 Orion provided aerial surveillance of the operation to arrest Christopher “Dudus” Coke, Prime Minister Andrew Holness told reporters [...]
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Brazilian police are investigating possible connections between the organized crime groups controlling illegal gambling in Rio de Janeiro and Russian and Israeli mafias, with casinos in Argentina, Ecuador and Uruguay. According to daily newspaper O Globo, the legal casinos play a key role in laundering money for operators of illegal lotteries and slot machines in [...]
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Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, who was convicted of attempting to barter President Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate seat for campaign cash or personal favors, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. Blagojevich led the fifth-most populous American state from January 2003 to January 2009, one month after his arrest for what Chicago U.S. Attorney Patrick [...]
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Paraguay and the United States have good relations, cooperating extensively on counternarcotics and counterterrorism efforts. The United States strongly supports the consolidation of Paraguay’s democracy and continued economic reforms. Following the April 2008 election, then-U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay James Cason congratulated Lugo and the APC on their victory and expressed a commitment to work with them to [...]
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Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom announced Tuesday approval of a U.S. extradition order for former president Alfonso Portillo, who faces money laundering charges for the alleged embezzlement of $1.5 million in foreign donations. Colom said Guatemalan courts have already approved Portillo’s extradition and that he will respect those rulings. “The president should not get mixed up [...]
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Besides being an advisor of the Organization of American States (OAS), and directly involved in the peace process in Colombia, Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón has been very active in other matters related to Latin American politics. Recently in Mexico, Judge Garzón was invited to an international Conference on Money Laundering. During the event, the famous [...]
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Mexico’s network of drug cartels is nebulous and complex, with organizations merging, splintering and shifting alliances in their quest to control drug-trafficking routes. Below is a rough overview of some of the major groups involved in the country’s drug trade, although there are numerous other affiliate groups and smaller players. READ MORE HERE
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Police in Colombia have arrested Dolly Cifuentes Villa in a wealthy neighbourhood of Medellin. Police say she laundered money for the Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico. Head of the Colombian police Gen Oscar Naranjo said Ms Cifuentes, 47, was “a high-ranking link between Colombian and Mexican drug dealers”. According to the US DEA, which took [...]
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Attorney General’s Office, Viviane Morales, said yesterday in Beijing that the growth of money laundering in Colombia has taken a rapid pace and now exceeds 3% of the country’s gross domestic product, or approximately 8 billion dollars per year. She said these are the results of a study made by the colombian Information and Financial [...]
