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Tampa Court (USA.) sentenced to prison sentences and the forfeiture of $21.5 million in assets from two Hispanics who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to launder drug money.
Ministry of Justice USA said in a statement Monday that Virginia Garcia Moreta, 35, and Hector Rodriguez Mendez, 47, residents of Tampa, were sentenced to 70 and 63 months, 7 to 5 years, in prison.
The couple pleaded guilty on June 10, 2022.
According to court documents, Garcia Moreta and Rodriguez Mendez led a Tampa-based organization responsible for laundering more than $21 million in proceeds from drugs from more than 400 illegal transactions.
The couple received significant sums profit from drugs and provided cash with instructions to people Rodriguez Méndez had recruited to buy bank checks and thus inject illicit profits into legal money circulation.
The scheme was that the people sent by the couple would later deposit the checks in different banks to avoid suspicion.
Detention
On June 18, 2019, Florida Highway Patrol officers pulled over Garcia Moreta who had a bag containing checks and check slips worth over a million dollars, marking the end of the couple’s criminal activities.
In total, the researchers identified 21.5 million dollars which were laundered through the purchase of bank checks.
The defendants’ share of the proceeds from their participation in the criminal scheme was approximately 3 percent of the illegally obtained amount.
” basic motivation of these drug trafficking organizations is profit at the expense of the safety and health of our citizens,” said Deanne Reuter, special agent in charge of Miami Field Administration Office Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
“Dirty money from drug trafficking cannot legally enter the trade stream, so drug traffickers rely on cash launderers to “clean it up,” said Brian Payne, special agent in charge of Diplomacy.The vision of criminal investigations of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS-CI).
This operation is part of an investigation. Drug Control Task Forces Organized Crime Control (OCDETF) by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Internal Revenue Service, the National Security Investigation Service, and the Florida Highway Patrol.
(As reported by EFE)
Source: RPP
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