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 [...]
Since he arrived in handcuffs at the Judicial Police (PJ) of Pichincha in the north center of Quito, Myasnikov M. remained silent, just speaking with his translator. The russian was wanted by Interpol accused of murder, illegal storage of firearms and explosives in his home country, Russia. The official website of Interpol has two photographs [...]
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Yesterday, mexican police captured a leading member of the Gulf drug cartel at his birthday party at a ranch near the Mexican border city of Reynosa which is across from McAllen, Texas. Gilberto Barragan Balderas “is considered one of the main drug lords of the Gulf Cartel’’, according to a source of the antidrug operations [...]
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Bad news for criminals: “Zero tolerance” expert Rudolph Giuliani is now advicer of Keiko Fujimori in Peru. Peru’s presidential front-runner Keiko Fujimori has hired former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani as an adviser in public safety, and the former mayor of New York travelled to Lima to see first hand the situation of crime [...]
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The Internet has become one of the main tools of European organized crime and human trafficking, drugs and money laundering in addition to being a vehicle of cybercrime. According to a new report by the European Police Office, Europol, in the last two years have seen a marked increase of criminal groups who use the [...]
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A serbian crime gang was seized by Brazilian federal police, showing an increasing problem for South America — foreign mafia groups (like the serbian) are increasingly using Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay as corridors to export the continent’s cocaine to Europe and elsewhere. Sixteen alleged members of the Serbian mafia acting in South America were arrested [...]
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Mexico will have a Border Police with tasks such as to prevent illegal entry of weapons, explosives and other substances into the national territory of Mexico by the border areas, mainly the United States. Yesterday, the House of Representatives in Mexico also endorsed that the Border Police are in charge of prosecuting crimes of human [...]
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Panama opened a Central American Center of Regional Security Information, for the exchange and coordination of security information between the countries of the region. The Center is a network of computers, sharing information and technology on security issues, such as drugs trafficking, organized crime, human smuggling, gangs, etc. The new facility operates from the Navy [...]
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The FBI had shut down two of the most important poker websites, Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars, by Friday evening and were working to do the same with the third, Absolute Poker. Online visitors were greeted with a message saying, “This domain name has been seized by the F.B.I. pursuant to an Arrest Warrant,” and [...]