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DIFFERENT ANGLE by Kenneth Rijock
Financial Crime Consultant, for World-Check
Colombian Casa de Cambio designated a FARC front
16 January 2008

The US Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has designated a Colombian money exchange company a Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficking Kingpin (SDNTK), due to its operation as a front for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the FARC. The Comercializadora Colombian Money Exchange Limitada exchanged foreign currency, obtained by the FARC from narcotics sales, for pesos. Six individuals linked to the business were also charged, including Norberto Antonio Agudelo Velasquez, reported to be a significant FARC drug trafficker.

For complete details of this announcement, see;

http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/hp762.htm

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