11. In an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Burlington, Bradley charged that Sargent had been funneling drug profits into the company, Connecticut Realty Trust. 12. It might also have been used to send drug profits south into Mexico. 13. It took particular note of the widespread laundering of drug profits, which puts innocent businesses in jeopardy. 14. Jorge Visbal, head of the Colombian Ranchers Federation, maintains that the guerrillas systematically stash their drug profits in foreign bank accounts. 15. Lo opened a bakery in Rangoon, raised livestock in Lashio and mined precious stones, using what he explained were family loans, not drug profits. 16. Lower prices could eat into drug company profits. 17. Meanwhile, the privatization of state-owned enterprises and the deregulation of the Mexican banking system facilitate the laundering of their drug profits. 18. Most recently, the Cali cartel has been investing drug profits in U.S.-made goods like computers, automobile parts and costume jewelry for export to Latin America. 19. Officials in Switzerland froze the accounts where Salinas deposited the money on suspicion that the accounts include drug profits. 20. One government official also said that Rubio Canales had been investigated in connection with the laundering of drug profits in Acapulco. |
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