Judge Orders Drug Cartel's Assets Seized
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A Colombian judge has ordered the seizure of dozens of properties, businesses, bank accounts and vehicles allegedly belonging to the jailed founders of the once-mighty Cali drug cartel, officials said Tuesday.
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Soldiers in north-west Mexico seize a man suspected of being a top member of the powerful Sinaloa drugs cartel.
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Anti-Mafia judges have ordered the arrest of 52 people suspected of having links to extortion and money-laundering rackets in a southern region of Italy.
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A federal judge in Miami paved the way for the former Panamanian leader to face money laundering charges.
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BOGOTA  - One of the 12 drug dealers most sought by the United States was captured yesterday, police said. Dagoberto Florez Rios, for whose capture the United States had offered US$5 million, was arrested
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Dozens of people accused of working for a Mexican drug cartel were arrested Wednesday in a multistate bust that has netted more than $45 million in cash and tons of cocaine, heroin and marijuana, federal officials said.
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Colombian police seize millions in fake euros and dollars in an international operation.
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Money seized from organised criminals is to be used to expand two crimefighting units.
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By Hugh Bronstein BOGOTA, Colombia  - A Colombian court approved theextradition to the United States of one of the South Americannation's most notorious paramilitary leaders on drug smugglingcharges.
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A Colombian drug lord was sentenced to 40 years in prison in Florida on Thursday and ordered to forfeit $110 million, authorities said.
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U.S. federal agents have arrested a Mexico City businessman wanted in connection with one of the Western Hemisphere's largest trafficking rings for the main chemical ingredient in methamphetamine.
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The two brothers accused of running Colombia's Cali cocaine cartel are nearing an agreement to plead guilty in exchange for guarantees that other family members won't face charges and will have access to some of the $2.1 billion the government wants to seize, The Associated Press has learned.
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The U.S. Justice Department is asking a federal judge in Miami to approve forfeiture of $110 million from U.S.-based financial institutions that were allegedly used to launder money from an Italian corruption ... via PR-inside.com
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A Chinese-Mexican businessman charged in the largest drug-related cash seizure in history accused a top Mexican official of forcing him to stash millions in illicit campaign funds in the walls and closets of his Mexico City mansion.
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Colombia's top drugs lord, known as the "boss of bosses" for smuggling hundreds of metric tons of cocaine to the United States, was captured on Monday in the country's biggest narcotics arrest in years.
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The Mexican government said Sunday it received a letter from a drug suspect alleging that millions of dollars seized at his house in March &#151; the largest drug-related cash seizure in history &#151; were in fact illegal ruling-party campaign funds.
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Mexico said on Wednesday it will investigate whether its federal agents protected a Chinese-Mexican businessman tied to the largest seizure of drug cash in world history, while the businessman's lawyers told a Washington news conference they fear for their client's life if he is returned to Mexico.