Colombian criminals have laundered the equivalent to $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 rate.
Source: PRE-LA
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