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Article: Fake Bank Links Italian Mob, Cali Cartel
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 17, 1994
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WASHINGTON A two-year sting that set up a phony bank for
laundering drug money found direct links between the Italian mob and
the Cali cocaine cartel in Colombia, U.S. officials said Friday.
The investigation, code-named Operation Dinero, seized nine
tons of cocaine in Canada and the United States and $52 million in
cash and assets.
Eighty-eight people, 60 of them in the United States, were
arrested.
Authorities from Italy, Spain and Britain joined Thomas A.
Constantine, head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, at a
news conference to describe the results of Operation Dinero and to
say they were ready to use similar tactics - seizure of drug-related
assets and setting up ...