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Article: Office of the Press Secretary -- Fact sheet -- Cooperation between the United States and Colombia on programs to counter money laundering and counterfeiting.
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- August 31, 2000
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M2 PRESSWIRE-31 August 2000-THE WHITE HOUSE: Office of the Press Secretary -- Fact sheet -- Cooperation between the United States and Colombia on programs to counter money laundering and counterfeiting (C)1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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Today, the United States and Colombia signed a multilateral agreement with Aruba and Panama to establish an international task force to counter the money laundering that occurs through the Black Market Peso Exchange (BPME). The BPME is the largest money laundering conduit in the Western Hemisphere and the primary money laundering conduit used by Colombian drug cartels. Anecdotal law enforcement ...