The Mexican citizen was sentenced to eight years and four months as a leading player in a drug laundry plot using code.
According to a new US Department of Justice (DOJ) press release, Jose “Meno” Martinez of Guadalajara, Mexico, helped Mexican drug traffickers wash their money.
Martinez has laundered $5.5 million in drug money and transferred the funds to Mexico via crypto, maintaining a percentage of his own.
As a result of the Martinez deal, the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) seized “approximately 3 kilograms of fentanyl, 52.77 kilograms of cocaine, 7,078.63 kilograms of unverved methamphetamine vermcoal lumphamme of coal lumphmes of coal lumphs of forms of firems of forms of forms of forms, 170 methamphetamine, plus $1.35 million in US currency, including coconut oil, 140 kilograms of methamphetamine and 15 gallons of liquid methamphetamine.”
Earlier this week, the DOJ also announced that two Florida men are facing the potential of decades of prison where they allegedly stole an unfair scheme in which they steal more than $100 million from a nonprofit organization set up to manage funds for people with special needs and disabilities.
The DOJ claims that Leo Joseph Govoni, John Leo Vivek and one unnamed co-conspirator valued the centre for special needs trust management client support funds, concealed embezzlement through complex financial transactions and sent fraudulent account statements with a disability balance to the disability client.
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