The American multinational financial services corporation Western Union and the global, non-profit organization, Crime Stopperssigned a collaboration agreement to combat the transactionssending money, the use and abuse of financial system by the racketeering transnational and local gangs.
As explained in a joint statement, the racketeering operating in Latin America and the Caribbean, seeks to “generate large amounts of money, in a phenomenon known as criminal economy“.
To achieve this, they claim that they “use countless methods” to hide their transaction and money transferssometimes illegally, and thus they use and abuse the financial system.
“We are extremely pleased with the signing of this agreement with Western Union which will allow us to strengthen the work of cooperation that performs Crime Stoppers in the region and is a clear example that the security It is a team building between the community, the private sector, civil society and the authorities of the countries,” said the regional director of Crime Stoppers for the Caribbean, Bermuda and Latin America, Alejo Campos.
This fight starts from the anonymous reports of citizens received through
The organization explained that these transactions and money transfers They come from activities such as the microtrafficking and the drug trafficpaying for smuggled or counterfeit products, sending money for migrant smuggling or human trafficking, and even returning money to the country of origin as part of a money laundering scheme, may be some of them.
