US prosecutors: illegal gold used in money-laundering scheme
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“A man who considered himself the Pablo Escobar of gold smuggling and two other former workers at a Miami-area refinery imported more than $1 billion in illegally mined gold from South America in a vast money-laundering scheme from 2013 to 2016, U.S. prosecutors say.
In a criminal complaint, the U.S. said that the three ex-employees of NTR Metals Miami and accomplices from several South American countries coordinated the purchase of illegally mined gold originating from Peruvian mines controlled by drug traffickers.” — Continue reading at https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/us-prosecutors-illegal-gold-used-in-money-laundering-scheme/2017/07/09/3715aea2-64b5-11e7-94ab-5b1f0ff459df_story.html?utm_term=.0e3761b2eead
