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- <text id=89TT2678>
- <title>
- Oct. 16, 1989: Business Notes:Money Laundering
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Oct. 16, 1989 The Ivory Trail
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 60
- Business Notes
- MONEY LAUNDERING
- Putting an Ear To the Wires
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- <p> Over the past two weeks, U.S. law-enforcement authorities
- have seized almost 35 tons of cocaine destined for the streets
- of America. A much bigger blow could be struck against the drug
- trade, however, if ways could be found to seize the cocaine
- cartels' funds. U.S. Assistant Treasury Secretary Salvatore
- Martoche said last week that the Bush Administration would move
- in that direction by trying to track the billions of dollars in
- electronic money transfers that move in and out of the U.S. each
- day. The goal: to identify and perhaps confiscate at least some
- of the more than $100 billion in drug funds laundered through
- the international banking system each year. Finance experts have
- long called for increased surveillance of so-called wire
- transfers. The task will be daunting because $1 trillion or more
- moves through banking wires each day, and the Government lacks
- the resources to monitor it all.
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- </body></article>
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