Inside ICE: Volume 2, Issue 25

ICE Money Laundering Case Nabs Nine in Salt Lake City

SALT LAKE CITY—Nine Salt Lake City-area people have been indicted for their roles in operating a series of illegal money transmitter businesses used to launder millions of dollars in drug money and to funnel drug proceeds to accounts in Mexico and throughout the United States.

The charges are the result of an ICE-led investigation under the auspices of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force program. The defendants are charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering, operating unlicensed money transmitting businesses and failing to file the required currency transactions.

The nine defendants, including four brothers, face a variety of charges, including conspiracy to commit money laundering, conducting an unlicensed money transmitting business, failure to file a currency transaction report, structuring monetary transactions, re-entry after deportation and being an alien in possession of a firearm. All but three of the defendants are in custody.

The indictment alleges that, beginning as far back as 1999, the suspects operated a succession of money transmitter businesses that were used to launder proceeds from illegal drug sales. According to investigators, the defendants employed a variety of methods to mask the illegal transactions, including moving the money through local currency exchange houses and check cashing services and maintaining multiple bank accounts.

The charges are the result of a two-year multi-agency undercover investigation led by ICE.

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