FROM A
DIFFERENT ANGLE by Kenneth Rijock
Financial Crime Consultant, for World-Check
MSBs that served the FARC designated by OFAC
22 April 2008

Two Colombian money exchange businesses ("profesionales del cambio") that reportedly launder foreign cash for the FARC, in Bogota have been named as Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficking Kingpins. Two individuals linked to these MSBs were also named. Look carefully at the ingenuity exhibited in the name of the second one; Details below.

The two casas de cambio, who exchanged foreign currency for Colombian Pesos with the FARC:

Cambios el Trebol (World-Check UID 851138).
Cambios Nasdaq Ltda. (World-Check UID 851139)
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For further research:
Treasury Targets FARC Financial Network in Colombia
http://www.treasury.gov/press/releases/hp938.htm

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