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150, Avarsleaied Tn @Nation ‘Drug Sting Money Laundering ‘ “ie Disrupted, DEA Says” By Sharon LaFraniere t Washington Post Stuff Writer ‘ederal drug enforcement offi- cials said yesterday they have dis- rupted the money-laundering wing of ithe leading Colombian cocaine el by arresting more than 150 people in six countries and seizing . nearly $42 million in illegal drug: . profits. . rug Enforcement : Administra- - officials said the three-year unflercover effort was the first in- stnce of international cooperation on{ a drug-money-laundering case anti the first time authorities uncov- et! enough eyidence to link the lombian Cali: drug cartel to the Sigilian Mafia. — ong those charged were sev- enjtop money managers for the Cali caftel, now Columbia’s most pow- erful cocaine-trafficking organiza- CORRECTIONS The date of a walk-through tour of the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s exhibit “Cavaliers yand Cardinals: Nineteenth ‘Century French Anecdotal i Paintings” with curator Eric | Zafran was incorrectly re- jported in a Style article yes- jterday. | Iti is Oct. 29 at 7 p.m. An article Saturday about ' California’ s adoption of leg- tislation outlawing : employ-' i ment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation ‘failed to include New Jersey’ iamong other States’ with sim- |: {ilar laws. TEO PRE: ASSOCIA! iS Drag Enforcement Administration chief Robert C. Bonner, left, traces money Inundering routes used by the Cali cartel. real bite out of their hide with these seven guys.” In Rome, a top-ranking Italian police official said the arrests would damage the alliance between the Colombian cartel and the Sicilian Mafia. “We have carried out many operations with the Americans but this is the biggest and most signif- icant,” said police official Achille ‘Serra. After Attorney General William P. Barr authorized the investigation in September 1989, Clifford said, DEA agents established a phony investment consulting firm named Trans Americas Ventures Associ- ates. Undercover agents relied on informants to introduce-the “firm” to the Cali cartel as an efficient col- lector of drug profits. “Our whole purpose was to ar- range the collection. of funds,” where in the world, We told them At the suggestion of cartel oper- atives, he said, undercover agents set up fake leather ‘goods busi- nesses, leasing warehouses. in Houston} Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Chicago and New York. The cartel members shipped a token amount of merchandise but pretended to ex- port much more. That generated false paperwork they could then use to justify their Colombian bank de- posits of illegal drug profits, Clifford said. Clifford said it took a year to es- tablish the phony corporation, an- _ other year to win the trust of the cartel and a third to actually run the operation. “Very slowly, they came to trust us,” he said. Just before the arrests, under- cover agents arranged to receive cocaine shipments that were then : seized. Three hundred kilos of co- said Clifford. “We .told them we. . had. the capability to collect any-.. caine is still “on its way on a boat,” he Said. Undercover agents were able to we had representatives. »jn- other “convince the seven alleged money countries.” CPYRGHT brokers to leave Colombia for meet- ings and parties in San Diego, Cost Rica and Italy. DEA Administrata Robert C. Bonner said that whilb some were arrested abroad, he e pects all seven to be tried in the United States. Bonner said 112 arrests” too place in the United States, 29 j Italy and the rest in Canada, Eng- land, Spain and Costa Rica. Italia police officials said one defendanj, who had 12 different identities, dq- vised some of the cartel’s more in- genious methods of smugglink drugs into Europe. Italians ident]- fied five bogus organizations th helped the cartel launder money, - including one posing as an anima] rights group, police said. About 70 of those arrested in the United States were “cell heads ang cell members”—worker bees in the cartel, according to Clifford. The rest were more significant player$, -he said. Special correspondent Clare Pedrick contributed to this report from Ital Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002300450001-7