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bulk cash shipments. Some $26 million in both terrorist and drug funds
were seized.
27. U.S. Treasury Department: Office of the General Counsel, Office of International
Affairs, Office of Foreign Assets Control, Office of Terrorism
and Financial Intelligence, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, Internal
Revenue Service Criminal Investigations, Internal Revenue Service
Tax Exempt and Government Entities, Executive Office for
Terrorist Financing and Financial Crime. Justice Department: Federal
Bureau of Investigations Terrorist Financing Operations Section and
Joint Terrorism Task Forces, Drug Enforcement Administration, Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Criminal Division, Civil
Division. Department of Homeland Security: U.S. Secret Service, Bureau
of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Bureau of Customs
and Border Protection. State Department: Office of the Coordinator for
Counterterrorism, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, Bureau of
International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. National Security
Council. Central Intelligence Agency. National Security Agency.
28. 2003 National Money Laundering Strategy (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Departments
of Justice and Treasury, 2003), 5.
29. United Nations Security Council, Second report of the Monitoring Group
established pursuant to resolution 1363 (2001) and extended by resolutions
1390 (2002) and 1455 (2003), on sanctions against Al-Qaida, the Taliban
and individuals and entities associated with them, S/2003/1070, December
2, 2003, 12.
30. Ibid., 13.
31. Ibid., 4.
32. Technically, a criminal does not have to “clean” prohibited criminal
money in order to shift it into another country. All he or she has to do is
make the origin of the money appear to be from a nonprohibited activity
in the receiving country. Thus, prohibited criminal money comes
into receiving countries simply disguised as allowable criminal money.
33. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, Permanent Subcommittee
on Investigations, Private Banking and Money Laundering: A Case Study
of Opportunities and Vulnerabilities, 106th Cong., 1st sess., November
9–10, 1999, 79.
34. Relating to Europe and the United States, there is some evidence that
drug dealers and racketeers are finding Europe increasingly attractive as