MEXICO CITY – President Felipe Calderon proposed sweeping new measures Thursday to crack down on the cash smuggling and money laundering that allow Mexican cartels to use billions in U.S. drug profits to enrich their criminal organizations.
Legislation introduced by the Calderon administration would make it illegal to buy real estate in cash.
The new laws [...]
The six businessmen accused of involvement with drug trafficking in the north of Rio de Janeiro, were presented on Thursday by the Civil Police in the auditorium of the 5th SD (Central Police). The criminals were caught in Brasilia, Campo Grande (MS) and São Paulo during Operation Without Borders. According to investigations, the group financed the [...]
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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More than 3 1/2 years after President Felipe Calderon declared war on Mexico’s drug cartels, the pace of killings has increased and 2010 is on track to be the deadliest yet in a campaign that has already claimed as many as 28,000 lives.
While the insecurity has put a damper on business [...]
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Just before sunset on April 10, 2006, a DC-9 jet landed at the international airport in the port city of Ciudad del Carmen, 500 miles east of Mexico City. As soldiers on the ground approached the plane, the crew tried to shoo them away, saying there was a dangerous oil leak. So the troops grew [...]
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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, [...]
At least 76 people died to bring him here. Accused Jamaican drug lord Christopher Coke is now on U.S. soil. He made the trip to the U.S. on a private plane that landed at White Plains Airport, outside New York City.
According to a federal indictment, as far back as 1994, Coke, [...]
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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 [...]
