NewsWhore
07-16-2007, 05:10 PM
The United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is looking at individuals and companies that send remittances to the Dominican Republic. Apparently, they are convinced that some of this money is part of schemes to launder drug money. According to Hoy newspaper, reliable sources say that investigations went deeper last Thursday after DR customs officials stopped Diana Marte Jerez who was carrying the tidy sum of US$738,000 hidden away in packages of rice and other products. The source says that the DEA is tracking large sums of money from the United States to Puerto Rico that are then shipped to the Dominican Republic. People carrying the money are paid between US$10,000 and US$15,000 per trip. The DEA is currently looking at some of the remittance companies, but the informant said that no names were available at this time.
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