Saturday 08 November
2008, San José, Costa
Rica
Former Panama Officials
to Court
Panama Implements
Energy-Saving Project
Guatemala Economy
Will Slow Down
Colombia Money
Laundering Grows
Venezuela, Russia Drill
First Gas Well
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Colombia Money
Laundering Grows
Bogota - Colombian
criminals have laundered
the equivalent to us$4.3
billion in 2008,
reported the Treasury
Department.
According to the study
conducted by the
Department of Financial
Analysis, over 400
reports of illegal
activity were filed
until October 2008, two
times the amount for
2007.
Director of the
Financial Analysis
Department Mario
Aranguren said that
12,562 people and 1,302
companies are involved
in the illegal
activities revealed in
reports of banks,
notaries and other
premises controlled by
the Financial
Administrative Division.
Many of those are bogus
companies that were
created to launder money
coming from drug
trafficking and other
illegal activities.
Aranguren said that 229
cases were reported in
2007, involving 24,030
people and 542 companies
in operations for a
total 2.96 trillion
Colombian pesos,
equivalent to some 1.5
billion Colombian pesos
at the current exchange
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