International asset recovery and suspected trade-based money laundering:
Suspected drug kingpins and hiding assets by way of nominees.
Twelve new peer review reports and laundering assets by purchasing real estate:
“Bodies hanging from bridge in Mexico are warning to social media users” highlights the heinous murders of two bloggers in Neuvo Laredo, Mexico. As “Mexico murders show how Internet empowers, threatens” too explains, the bloggers are believed to have been killed for reporting on Mexican drug cartels.
The August 2011
“Secreting Assets Without A Border Trace” shows the role portable valuable commodities like diamonds can have in a scheme to hide assets. This January 4th “Asset Search News Roundup” reviews two more ways assets can be hidden.
A December 16th press release refers to one case now being prosecuted which
Detecting crimes during a marital asset search and Mexico’s ubiquitous drug cartel violence, are examined by the September 26th "Asset Search News Roundup".
Any crimes committed by a divorcing spouse hiding assets would conceivably be detected during a marital asset search. As the following articles reveal, a divorcing spouse hiding assets might possibly face
An April 20, 2010 statement from the U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona memorializes the U.S. Department of Justice strategy for fighting the scourge of Mexico’s drug cartels. The April 20th statement indicates that the Department of Justice concentrates on: gathering intelligence about the cartels; targeting cartel leaders for extradition and seizing illicit assets; investigating the cartels’ U.S. crimes like gun and bulk cash smuggling; battling the cartels’ violent crimes and narco-trafficking in the U.S.; and prosecuting cartel members in federal court.
This statement additionally mentioned the Mérida Initiative, (referred to herein as "the Initiative"), which is funding equipment and training for Mexico to fight the cartels. Some of the Initiative’s expenditures are listed at the excerpt below from Table 3, p. 25 of the "Merida Initiative: The United States Has Provided Counternarcotics and Anticrime Support but Needs Better Performance Measures":
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Securities fraudster Trevor Cook, assets that might have been misappropriated from former East Germany, and over $2 million is interdicted at a U.S.-Mexican border crossing:
The August 14th “Asset Search News Roundup” mentions money laundering: