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Saturday, January 1, 2000
Volume:
16
Issue:
1
537
Abstract:
On December 3, 1999, a report revealed that in October 1999 law enforcement officials disclosed that, as a result of the continuing investigations due to leads from Operation Casablanca, they had identified $25 million in suspected drug assets of Amado Carrillo Fuentes, the late Juarez cartel leader, in Argentina.
Investigators say that most of the funds originated in California banks, including Bank of America, and were transferred to an account -- No. 36137631 -- in Citibank New York, held by a firm known as Mercado Abierto Casa de Cambio S.A. of Argentina…[more]