Dirty Gold by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2021-03-02T00:00:00+00:00

In April, Chilean federal police agent Juan Pablo Sandoval and his boss Juan Figueroa traveled to Miami to meet with the FBI team assigned to the case.8

They also visited Miami International Airport so they could get a better understanding of how Vilches’s gold entered the country. The investigators knew from working on drug trafficking cases that US officials carefully screened luggage for cocaine and marijuana. But gold shipments, they were surprised to learn, passed through airport controls without much scrutiny. Officials looked at customs declarations and weighed the gold bars. That was about it.9

Back in Chile, a corruption scandal was rocking the country. The attorney general had moved prosecutor Emiliano Arias from his post to a special team investigating political corruption. Arias had asked to take three prized cases with him: two human trafficking probes and the Vilches investigation.10

The gold case fascinated him. It stretched from Perú and Argentina to the United States and the United Arab Emirates. It was also a crime Chilean prosecutors hadn’t seen before. Vilches appeared to have found a niche that no other criminal group in the country had discovered. The amount of gold he had moved in a short period of time was mind-boggling. And, Arias had to admit, the case was entertaining. The key player was a twenty-two-year-old college student who sent his father-in-law on grueling eight-hour trips to Miami with suitcases full of gold. One of his associates held business meetings in cafés con piernas, the Chilean equivalent of Hooters. You couldn’t make this stuff up.11

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