FBI provided data leading to laundering bust
Judge Wilber Castillo ordered the detention of four people allegedly involved in a money-laundering organization, which operated from Chiriquí and with possible links to an organization that was dismantled in Costa Rica.
While three other people were ordered to be notified periodically before a court and prevented from leaving the country.
The group made up of five men and two women were brought before the judge on Thursday, April 14, at a hearing requested by the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office against Organized Crime in the province of Chiriquí.
The suspects were apprehended in the early hours of April 12 through multiple raids carried out in the districts of Boquete and David, where cash, high-end vehicles and firearms were seized.
A 48-hectare farm valued at $450,000 was also seized. There was a herd of 50 cattle on the property.
Three r Costa Rican citizens apprehended in the action were deported to Costa Rica since they were requested by the Judicial Investigation Agency because they belonged to an alleged money laundering network.
Prosecutor Antonio Nicolau Nicolau explained that this group is allegedly linked to the head of an organization that was defragmented in Costa Rica.
He revealed that this investigation was carried out with the support of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which in August 2021 provided data on the case.
