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DEA Operation Money Trail
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Approx. 5" In 2005, DEA implemented its Money Trail Initiative, an innovative financial crime strategy that attacked the financing of the illegal drug trade and dismantled major drug trafficking organizations. In the first year and a half, the Money Trail Initiative was responsible for dismantling six national organizations involved in the transportation of bulk currency drug proceeds from various points in the U.S. to Mexico. As of July 2006, this initiative resulted in the arrest of 418 defendants and the seizure of $65.4 million in U.S. currency, $14.5 million in assets, 59.6 metric tons of marijuana, 9.7 metric tons of cocaine, 126.7 kilograms of methamphetamine, 9 kilograms of heroin, 249 vehicles, and 77 weapons. One of these SOD investigations, Operation Choque, resulted in the identification and arrest of Mexican CPOTs Oscar, Miguel, and Luis Arriola-Marquez, and the dismantlement of their organization, which, based on ledgers seized by Mexican authorities, was responsible for the smuggling of at least 14,000 kilos of cocaine into the U.S. and the smuggling of $240 million out of the U.S. Based on information supplied by DEA, Mexican authorities have seized over $18 million of the Arriola-Marquez Organization’s assets.
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