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<text id=89TT2678>
<title>
Oct. 16, 1989: Business Notes:Money Laundering
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Oct. 16, 1989 The Ivory Trail
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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BUSINESS, Page 60
Business Notes
MONEY LAUNDERING
Putting an Ear To the Wires
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<p> Over the past two weeks, U.S. law-enforcement authorities
have seized almost 35 tons of cocaine destined for the streets
of America. A much bigger blow could be struck against the drug
trade, however, if ways could be found to seize the cocaine
cartels' funds. U.S. Assistant Treasury Secretary Salvatore
Martoche said last week that the Bush Administration would move
in that direction by trying to track the billions of dollars in
electronic money transfers that move in and out of the U.S. each
day. The goal: to identify and perhaps confiscate at least some
of the more than $100 billion in drug funds laundered through
the international banking system each year. Finance experts have
long called for increased surveillance of so-called wire
transfers. The task will be daunting because $1 trillion or more
moves through banking wires each day, and the Government lacks
the resources to monitor it all.
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