Monday, January 9, 2012

Cartel Infiltration

This is another good bust for America and the chemical dependency counseling community! The U.S has been trying to find ways to infiltrate Mexico's cartel system for some time now because of all the deaths and they have just closed up a case. 

"WASHINGTON - American drug enforcement agents posing as money launderers secretly helped a powerful Mexican drug trafficker and his principal Colombian cocaine supplier move millions in drug proceeds around the world, as part of an effort to infiltrate and dismantle the criminal organizations wreaking havoc south of the border, according to newly obtained Mexican government documents. 

The documents, part of an extradition order by the Mexican Foreign Ministry against the Colombian supplier, describe American counternarcotics agents, Mexican law enforcement officials and a Colombian informant working undercover together over several months in 2007. 

Together, they conducted numerous wire transfers of tens of thousands of dollars at a time, smuggled millions of dollars in bulk cash - and escorted at least one large shipment of cocaine from Ecuador to Dallas to Madrid. 


The extradition order - obtained by the Mexican magazine emeequis and shared with The New York Times - includes testimony by a Drug Enforcement Administration special agent who oversaw a covert money laundering investigation against a Colombian trafficker named Harold Mauricio Poveda-Ortega, also known as "The Rabbit. ... "

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/09/world/americas/us-agents-aided-mexican-drug...

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