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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much is at stake as the powerful flow of narcodollars is recycled through the world's financial system. Drug lords and other lawbreakers are believed to be buying valuable chunks of the American economy, but clever Dutch sandwiches and other subterfuges make it almost impossible for U.S. authorities to track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Torrent of Dirty Dollars | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

While businesses and individuals may conceal their assets for purposes that are completely legal, or dubious at worst, the systems set up for their convenience can be perversely efficient at helping drug barons launder as much as $100 billion a year in U.S. proceeds. "It is hard to understand why...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Torrent of Dirty Dollars | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

In a high-tech game of cat and mouse, the Justice Department said last week that it had found and triggered the freezing of $60.1 million in bank accounts in five countries that contained the personal income of Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, a leader of the Medellin cartel. Using financial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Torrent of Dirty Dollars | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

What makes enforcement so difficult is a financial murkiness that has long frustrated tax collectors as they search for dirty money afloat in the world's oceans of legitimate payments. The multibillion-dollar flow of black money, the profits from criminal enterprise, moves through the world's financial institutions as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Torrent of Dirty Dollars | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

But hauling cash out of the U.S. has its drawbacks. The interest revenue lost while cash is in transit pains a drug dealer as much as it would a corporate financial officer. And since narcotraffickers see America as a safe and profitable haven for their assets, they often launder and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Torrent of Dirty Dollars | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

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