Six people who would be part of a network dedicated to legalizing product money from sending cocaine to Hong Kong, China, were captured and prosecuted by the Police and the Prosecutor’s Office.
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The detainees were brought before a bail control judge and charged with the crime of money laundering. These are Maricel Mateus Rodríguez, Mireya Gaviria Cabirol, Nicolás Torrado Gaviria, Santiago Torrado Gaviria, Beatriz Rojas Carrillo and Jorge Felipe Alarcón Torres.
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According to the investigation by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, these people apparently withdrew various amounts of money that arrived in Colombia in international tours. At least 40 more citizens like them would have been recruited by the organization engaged in drug trafficking to receive payments as a result of drug shipments.
With this modality, the sum of the money laundering attributed to the organization would exceed 1,000,000,000 pesos, According to the research body.
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Follow-up work showed that the cocaine was camouflaged in hand luggage, human mails, Double-bottomed suitcases and industrial machinery leaving for the International Airport El Dorado, from Bogotá.
“The articulated work of the Prosecutor’s Office and the Police allowed the capture and prosecution of six people who would be part of an organization dedicated to money laundering allegedly a product of cocaine that was sent from Colombia to Hong Kong. The network had used as routes you want to connect to United States, Venezuela, Ecuador and countries in Central America and Europe, “said Carlos Enrique Vieda, Specialized Director against Money Laundering of the Prosecutor’s Office.
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