Mexico alleges Luz del Mundo, four other groups laundered money
Mexico City, MexicoAP Mexican investigators said Tuesday they have filed money-laundering complaints against five religious groups in Mexico, including the Luz del Mundo church whose leader is charged in the United States with child rapes. The announcement from the Financial Intelligence Unit did not identify the groups involved in the complaints. But an official, who […]
Drugs, oil…women? Mexican cartels turn to human trafficking
Mexico City, MexicoThomson Reuters Foundation Organised crime is mutating in Mexico as gangs who steal oil and sell drugs try a lucrative new line of work trafficking people, according to a top official fighting money laundering. Santiago Nieto, head of Mexico’s financial intelligence unit (UIF), said his team had discovered that some of the country’s […]