March 11, 2016
Colombia dismantled an international money laundering network with the arrest of 13 suspects, including five flight attendants, prosecutors said Thursday.
“Among the 13 arrested people are five [Avianca Airlines] flight attendants and eight individuals who were engaged in transporting to Colombia dollars and euros illegally obtained from Spain, the United States, Mexico and elsewhere,” prosecutors said in a statement.
The detainees will be tried for money laundering, illicit enrichment and criminal conspiracy.
The network was believed to be linked to drug trafficking because some of the detainees have connections to members of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel, Deputy Attorney General Jorge Fernando Perdomo said.