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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The U.S. television network Univision claims to have access to Bolivian intelligence reports. In Univision´s report, released Thursday, the network linked the former commander of the Bolivian Police General Oscar Nina with the leader of the Sinaloa cartel, Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera , known as “Chapo” (Shorty). The Police Commander Nina allegedly provided protection when Chapo [...]
2011 Sep 03 | Posted in
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Judge Fanny Canessa decided today to file the request of the state prosecution process for the imprisonment of Mariano Arana, Maria Julia Munoz and Alberto Rosselli for their alleged responsibility in the municipal casinos maneuvers. In this case the only one who served jail time was the former director of Casinos the Municipality of [...]
2011 Aug 31 | Posted in
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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 [...]
2011 Aug 11 | Posted in
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FIFA announced hiring former FBI director Louis Freeh to assist FIFA’s Ethics Committee in examining bribery claims and possibly collect evidence against the world soccer governing body’s suspended former executives Mohamed Bin Hammam and Jack Warner. The Qatari Hammam was accused of offering about U.S. $ 63 000 to members of the Football Confederation of [...]
The former President of Honduras Manuel Zelaya plans to return home May 28 after nearly a year and a half of exile in the Dominican Republic. Zelaya is expected to return as part of an agreement, brokered by the presidents of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, and Venezuela, Hugo Chávez. “We have to see what he [...]
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 [...]
2011 May 07 | Posted in
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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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Recently, Brazil signed an agreement with Bolivia to fight cocaine production and trafficking in the country. The agreement aims to replace the absence of the DEA in Bolivia, when this country expelled the US Drug Enforcement Administration in 2008 for alleged “political interference”. In the last months, there is an increase in the suspicions about [...]
2011 Apr 19 | Posted in
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Last Monday, Mexico announced a plan to reward people who report suspected money laundering activities. In this program, mexican authorities will pay them with up to one-quarter of any illicit funds or property seized. This innovative policy of mexican authorities is based in Mexico ´s struggle to find effective measures to fight drug trafficking and [...]
