Specialists in detecting and combating money laundering and applying good practices in justice from the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) imparted a workshop to Mexican investigators at the Hyatt Hotel of this city.
Guests and congressmen who passed through the hotel’s Regency rooms were struck by two screens alluding to the FBI and the loud explanations given by the American instructor in Spanish.
The large letters of FBI did not go unnoticed, except for its combat motto that identifies it: “Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity”, its logo that supports the Department of Justice of the United States government, and the participating Mexican cities: Tijuana, Hermosillo, Monterrey, Ciudad Juárez and Guadalajara.
The theme of the workshop was public corruption investigations and the diversity of ways of laundering money in Mexico and the world. Today, money laundering not only occurs through drug trafficking, as was considered decades ago, but crime uses any means to insert illicit money into any economic or political activity.
Listening to the conversation was cut off when an agent in an elegant suit, without the characteristic glasses of FIB agents, approached the reporter to ask if he was part of the workshop. When he received the answer no, he asked her to leave and closed the door that allowed him to see and hear the talk of one of the speakers.
The workshop that the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) gave to Mexican investigators in a room at the Hyatt Hotel was a long day of topics related to money laundering, from the time of Al Capone in the 1920s and 1930s. to this day, when any form is used to bring money from illicit activities into countries.