Drug Trafficking Groups organization
also: traffickers, drug distributors, drug merchants
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Large sums of illegal money as well as presented opportunities for the laundering of drug profits through online investments in legitimate corporations. According to an unnamed veteran Treasury Department investigator, password-protected we…
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In business-to-business exchanges, the website allows stockbrokers to bid on black market funds for traffickers who want to convert the dollars to Colombian pesos for use in their operation at home. A trafficker can bid on different rates. …
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The annual turnover from this online finance was estimated to be $3 billion. So everybody's in on it. Information technology specialists from legitimate local businesses are also involved in providing technology support to Colombia's traffi…
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have been given contracts in Colombia. At the same time, the narco elite has members of their own family attending U.S. engineering and aeronautical schools. Most of the technology used directly or indirectly in the cocaine trade comes from…
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Colombian pilots routinely map the radar coverage of U.S. biplanes by putting fuzz buster radar detectors in their airplane cockpits and logging the hits. The traffickers use every piece of data to build a picture of the radar signatures, m…
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In addition to surveillance and encryption technology, submarines have been used by drug trafficking operations for at least two decades. The Cali cartel purchased a Soviet Tango-class diesel submarine in 1990. Italian engineers, after over…
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the sale of music, art, and literature films produced by the organization. The FARC funds its military wing through extortion of the Colombian narco elite. They kidnap members of the Colombian government for ransom or prisoner exchanges, ba…
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are used for the peasants. By depicting the FARC as a major drug trafficking organization, the U.S. and Colombia capitalized on the conflict involving cocaine production between rebel-held zones and the rest of Colombia, where coca was also…
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such as controlling local cocaine-based markets. Some insurgent units have assisted drug trafficking groups in transporting and storing cocaine and marijuana in Colombia. In particular, some insurgent units protect clandestine airstrips in …
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does indicate a nexus between certain traffickers and the FARC. Uncooperated, meaning it's a complete lie. There is no evidence that any FARC or ELN units have established international transportation, wholesale distribution, or drug money …
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Columbia's traditional agricultural export, which was coffee, was dwarfed by the size of the demand for coca leaves. The FARC forced drug merchants and drug traffickers to pay peasants and rural laborers the estimated market price of their …
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Targeting the cocaine trade assisted the FARC to finance their war. So there's, let's see, there's quite a bit more to this, but I think you guys understand where we're going with this. There's a lot more details to this, and it involved th…