The U.S. Justice
Department released the below information:
A Chinese national
pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit money laundering in connection
with laundering more than $4 million in drug proceeds generated by large-scale
cocaine trafficking in the United States.
Assistant Attorney
General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department's Criminal Division;
U.S. Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger for the Eastern District of Virginia;
Special Agent in Charge Wendy C. Woolcock of the Drug Enforcement
Administration's (DEA) Special Operations Division and Special Agent in Charge
Jeffrey T. Scott of the DEA Louisville Field Division; Jason Crosby, Chief
of the Criminal Investigations Division of the U.S. Department of State's
Diplomatic Security Service (DSS); and Special Agent in Charge James Gibbons of
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations
(HSI) Chicago, Illinois, made the announcement after U.S. District Judge Leonie
M. Brinkema accepted the plea.
According to court
documents, Xueyong Wu, 40, cultivated relationships with Latin American drug
trafficking organizations to transport and launder their United States-based
drug proceeds. Wu is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 29.
Much of this money was
repatriated to Mexico through a complex series of international financial transactions.
Wu received a percentage of the money involved in these transactions as
compensation for organizing these laundering activities. Much of this
money was generated through movement of cocaine or payment for cocaine that
took place within the Eastern District of Virginia.
Assistant U.S.
Attorneys Michael P. Ben’Ary and David A. Peters, along with Trial Attorneys
Steve Sola and Kerry Blackburn of the Criminal Division’s Money Laundering and
Asset Recovery Section are prosecuting the case.
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