HUGE US STING OPERATION NETS VENEZUELA INDICTMENT

Federal authorities extended their massive undercover
money-laundering sting to Venezuela with an indictment charging four
banks and five individuals with laundering $9.5 million in illegal
drug-trafficking proceeds.

The indictment, announced Wednesday by the Treasury and Justice
departments, is the fourth stemming from the U.S. Customs Service-led
"Operation Casablanca," the largest drug-money laundering case in U.S.
history.

On Monday, officials disclosed the three-year operation, which exposed
links between Mexico's largest banks and the Cali drug cartel of
Colombia and the Juarez cartel of Mexico.

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