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Following the drug dollars from American trap houses to wholesalers and transporters, funneling billions into Mexico's money laundry....
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00:10this company generated 10 million dollars last year this one was five million dollars per year
00:18three million dollars this is another company you can imagine whatever you want in these small rooms
00:25these empty offices are a front for paper companies that launder cartel drug money
00:34from trap houses across america to wholesalers transporters and cartel cells there's a billion
00:43dollar tide funneling into mexico when it's moved you're talking millions weekly
00:52now u.s authorities are cracking down
00:55i see you got a big stack of cash in there what's up there but with this much money at
01:01stake
01:01the cartels are finding ever more devious ways to clean let's put it in the positon
01:07and smuggled in one truck like this they could be a million dollars their dirty cash
01:35nine p.m cancun mexico jc is on his way to pick up dirty american drug money
01:42the proceeds of hundreds of illicit drug deals back in the states the u.s generates over a hundred
01:49billion dollars of drug sales a year the cartels face two problems getting it back to mexico and
01:56banking it why carteles que pues tienen hasta 200 300 millones de dólares parados en sus casas y no
02:04los pueden mover no los pueden sacar that's where jc comes in to spend their profits the cartels
02:11must launder all this dirty cash transforming the proceeds of crime into legitimate profit jc
02:18is part of an army of workers whose job it is to get cartel cash into the banking system without
02:24revealing its origins now that he's in there's no turning back
02:48so he's on call 24 7 to do the cartels bidding
03:03the id cards were secretly photocopied during legitimate transactions jc uses them to make multiple
03:11currency exchanges all bogus jc then picks up the newly swapped pesos and passes them on to his cartel
03:33the cash is now laundered its origin erased
03:45but this cash began its journey 3 000 miles away in chicago
03:54it's one of the biggest narco distribution hubs in america
04:01the windy city's railroad port and interstate highway system
04:06make it the ideal location for distributing dope and collecting cash from across the midwest
04:19and the south side is where a lot of the business gets done
04:24every deals a drop in the bucket that contributes to a mighty river of cash flowing out of the city
04:37and handling the retail an army of local gangbangers
04:57another bag of crack sold
05:00every day thousands of deals like this make fortunes for the mexican cartels
05:07i'm 19 i've been doing this since i was 15 man you got to feed yourself because ain't nobody else
05:11gonna be able to do it we grew up with our mothers and fathers around here so
05:14you feel me you got to be your own father figure get your own money out here because
05:17ain't nobody gonna give it to you
05:25skillet operates at the bottom of the money supply chain
05:29he and thousands like him generate dirty cash
05:33unusable in any quantity until it gets laundered
05:42skillet gets crack on credit and sells it for ten dollars a rock
05:49after a long day of moving product back at the trap house the real work begins
05:55splitting the take first up the crew take their cut
05:59between three of us we're gonna split a four hundred dollar profit off the ounce you know
06:03it works out around 13 bucks an hour but they count on volume to make ends meet
06:09nothing too much but it's about the quick flip we ain't even really thinking about making too much
06:13money we were at about getting it in and getting it off so we could stay with it you feel
06:17the rest of the cash goes up the chain to the cruise drug supplier
06:21a regional distributor who works with the cartel the payment's got to be right and it's got to be
06:27fast we got to go back to the store with 1200 man if you take that credit from him man
06:33you got
06:33to pay him if not he gonna come see you you're gonna be dead six feet under man that's gonna
06:39be
06:39smoke man smoking for that count man yeah where we from you got to keep it with you or somebody
06:44of running your trap or something you feel me but there's another problem moving cash in the hood
06:50is riskier than holding drugs
06:57and skillet's anxious he's got 12 hours until his wholesaler opens shop and that means holding on to
07:04the cash everybody out here thirsty robbers you gotta keep your eyes up for the haters man they trying to
07:09take you down because they ain't eating you feel me it's all our world everywhere man that's why we
07:13call it shot right because it's so you don't know where it's coming from man your homie'll cross you
07:18for a couple bucks man it's how it is you got to keep your pistol while you're trapping and if
07:22not
07:22you're gonna get gagged skillet's homeboy breeze is always ready with a gun he's had plenty of practice
07:29how you are you just all the time i had to swap something out you know you can't keep the
07:35hours for long
07:35that's my baby though i'm gonna say i'm loving it so i'm loving it all we need is their money
07:43man
07:44that's all we care about the greater chicago area has thousands of trap houses holding millions of
07:51dollars destined to go south if local police could choke off the money supply here they'll do major
07:58damage to the local dealers and their mexican suppliers 50 minutes away in lake county local
08:10sheriffs are planning to do just that they're preparing to raid a trap house and seize cash they
08:21always want to protect their money no matter what all right let's load up
08:32we've gotten a lot of tips where stash houses are at it's worth it because that's where you hurt people
08:38a lot of these guys are accustomed to being in jail you know it's not a big threat to them
08:41you take their money from them you take what they've worked for that's where it hurts
08:46so today they hope to seize the dealer's cash before he passes it up the supply chain we're on our
08:53way to uh uh gary indiana to do a search warrant put the bad guys in jail
09:08right in front of this car
09:12watch that window over there
09:16the sheriffs block all escape routes they know the suspect's armed and has a history of resisting
09:22arrest
09:28but the battering ram can't get them in they're losing crucial time
09:36finally
09:36got one in custody two they get their man plus a female accomplice
09:50but they haven't found what would really damage the local supply chain
09:56money would be nice but just didn't have that luck today
09:59back in chicago one flush dealer turns to cleaning his newfound cash
10:11peace long do not touch the drugs baby this is what i touch on a daily basis
10:22cocaine wholesaler peace long splits his drug revenue sending dirty money south to his suppliers
10:30while laundering his personal profits
10:33tonight he's preparing to clean one hundred and fifty thousand dollars at a chicago club
10:39getting ready for this little joint tonight
10:42we're setting it up about 150 big money baby all day that's all we do
10:48gonna flip this real quick get rich baby all day
10:54but getting the money there is no guarantee
10:57you gotta wrap this seal you know what i'm saying wrap this seal because one time
11:01riding got pulled over they brought the dogs dogs snapped me out took 17 from me
11:06so now i gotta wrap it up vaseline it down and keep it concealed
11:11so he takes no chances
11:14all right now on my way down here to go pick up this little cheddar if i want it to
11:19be used
11:22strap up safety first as a chicago kingpin peace long makes millions supplying cocaine to the city's
11:30street gangs but he can't spend his ill-gotten gains without drawing unwanted attention
11:37most we ever did was like one five that's 1.5 mil people and that was not too long ago
11:44to be honest with
11:45he must claim a credible source of income to get his money into a bank or else
11:50his crack den dough will be useless i gotta mingle with the rich people keep my nose clean dress sharp
11:58and leave all the other stuff in my neighborhood so he fronts events at clubs to make it look like
12:06he's a legitimate entrepreneur that's where the most money come in say we do two three events
12:12a week usually more smallest one might bring you in ten the biggest one might bring in like you said
12:18150
12:18200. peace long cooks the books inflating his sales with dirty drug cash now what i'm collecting on
12:26is the door the drinks the tickets i'm gonna pay for everything full up front with my dirty money
12:33and i clean it within an hour or two like i said
12:38by inflating ticket food and drink sales peace long has masked the money's true origin
12:45ultimately he receives a check that he can deposit in a bank all right what's up just left from one
12:51of
12:51the huge events you know what i'm saying just made 150 off that checked up baby 150 off that yeah
12:59that
12:59dirty coke money to clean game money because it's all about the game baby nobody plays it better
13:06peace long's cleaned his personal profits but he's got a problem he still must pay his traffickers but he
13:14can't wire this much money as it would draw unwanted attention feds don't get you they know you owe too
13:21much money don't don't think they don't they know tough banking regulations and federal investigators
13:28means he must be careful with the traffickers money fortunately for wholesalers like peace long
13:34there's another cog in the laundering machine to help
13:39an army of transporters ready to move his cash debts across the border
13:47special agents for ice homeland security investigations work to stop the flow of dirty cash south
13:55as you can see here's a vehicle that we seized from a criminal organization that was moving money
13:59to the to the southwest border and into mexico
14:07but this is no ordinary suv start the vehicle activate the rear defrost then there's a magnet which
14:14completes the circuit raising the entire back of the vehicle revealing the hidden compartment
14:22ingenious retrofits like this keep hsi agents on their toes there's enough room in this trap
14:29to probably conceal just about a million dollars
14:35outside chicago hsi is on the hunt for dirty money the group that i'm currently in
14:42is a financial investigations group that group primarily focuses on the illegal and illicit
14:49narcotics proceeds that are being transferred back to mexico and columbia special agent popovitz is
14:56heading to a strip mall where cartel operatives have previously conducted cash handovers in the last 10
15:02years on average our team seizes about 10 million dollars a year in bulk cash
15:11bags of dirty cash often change hands in plain sight
15:16this is the typical big box store parking lot cartels want to remain anonymous
15:23blend in with the general population we've actually done multiple deals in here meaning that
15:29we've observed members of cartels dropping bags to other members it's very simple you'll you'll see
15:38two cars pull up side by side and typically what happens is trunk opens up and a duffel bag goes
15:44from
15:45one to the other he's got a white t-shirt open the back door of the vehicle we just dropped
15:51it back to
15:51the uc in a perfect world we're able to identify who that person is dropping the money off to and
15:57then
15:57eventually hopefully hit the larger load and really disrupt the organization
16:09everyone thinks that it's just in the bad parts of town but the reality of it is it's in every
16:13part of
16:14town and it's in every parking lot it's estimated anywhere from 20 to 40 billion dollars moving around
16:24this country per year so to move 20 to 40 billion dollars a year a hundred thousand dollars at a
16:31time you just can't do it so they have to take those risks and they have to push that kind
16:36of money
16:36through these vehicles trying to run the law enforcement gauntlet are thousands of cartel money
16:43transporters man one thing you got to realize that it is a thousand compartments on the truck these
16:50tires right here man can be filled with 10 to 15 a piece from this part right here to this
16:57part right
16:58here now you got an extra compartment you can build easy it's walls right here people build all day long
17:05man
17:11today spins is making final checks on his truck before transporting dirty drug cash to the cartel in
17:18houston he can stash millions of dollars in a truck like this i do like you know one trip every
17:27two
17:28three months you know plain and simple trip is normally two days 22 hours on the road from chicago to
17:37houston
17:40with the direct southern routes out of chicago heavily patrolled spins switches highways
17:46highways he's using i-65 southbound in lake county indiana but sheriffs are on the lookout we've seen
17:55major shipments of money coming through here that we're destined for mexico
18:05sergeant stewart has patrolled indiana's highways for over 10 years he's no stranger to intercepting dirty money
18:17anything but typically in a year and three of us sees you know anywhere from 500 000 to a million
18:22in
18:22cash you're being detained right now in suspicion of trafficking illegal currencies
18:26but picking the right vehicle requires an experienced eye as you can see there's hundreds of cars that go
18:32by every minute and we have to somehow sort through that ton of traffic typically i see them long before
18:39they see me because I'm sitting still just watching traffic if they're a
18:43criminal that's committing a serious crime with something that's serious in
18:46their mind and they suddenly notice me when I've seen them all along they're
18:50gonna have that fear reaction they're gonna have that adrenaline dump the
18:53they're gonna stop thinking clearly and they're gonna do something that disrupts
18:57the flow of traffic yeah I felt like I've been trailed you know while I was
19:03driving with my load down the highway I felt like you know people watching me
19:08you know just get paranoid sometimes
19:14but if spins gets pulled over with cartel money in his possession he won't be
19:18worrying about going to jail what I think about cartels it's like you know
19:23don't some don't some badass you just don't want to mess with it
19:33it's go time
19:44I'm gonna take a look at this car up here when it was approaching me it was
19:48tailgating a semi sergeant Stewart of the Lake County Sheriff's is following a
19:53suspicious vehicle along I 65 in Indiana
20:01he approaches cautiously some traffickers are prepared to use maximum force to defend their
20:08loads you know all your brake lights are out back here your license plate is hanging off
20:12the back your license valid
20:14all right we'll come back here let's check out your license
20:18just jump in the front over there
20:25with the driver in the car the sheriff senses something you get charged with weed before
20:32yeah the reason why I mention that to you is because he smell like weed a little bit right now
20:36oh no I was smoking today
20:37no I was around somebody that was smoking today I don't want to laugh to you
20:40is there any more weed in that car right now
20:41no I'm crying with my baby ain't no weed in there
20:47sergeant Stewart turns up the heat on the passenger
20:55hey I was talking to your partner you said some guys were smoking weed with you earlier
20:58because he smelled like weed there's no weed in the car
21:00no no I said he smelled like weed
21:02okay that's him stick your weed in the car and see if he's smoking
21:05is there weed in the car
21:06no weed in the car
21:08okay
21:09with little evidence of illegal activity the sergeant doesn't have many options
21:16your license is valid do you think you could finish driving all the way to
21:18you have no problem that figuring he has bigger fish to fry he decides to cut
21:24them loose they seem like they were legit I didn't notice anything in the car any
21:30odor in the car itself I don't think there was anything really more that I
21:34needed to do with that but the following morning sergeant Stewart is in for a
21:53surprise it's the same vehicle with the broken brake light and the passenger that
21:58sergeant Stewart pulled over yesterday but there's something wrong with the driver the canine unit take
22:15a closer sniff did your dog hit on the car okay you can search if you think you need to
22:20the deputies
22:23now have probable cause if the driver's trafficking weed he's looking at prison time
22:33then sergeant Stewart spots something in the man's pocket I see you got a big stack of cash in there
22:49a large amount of cash like this makes Stewart suspicious the man could be
22:54moving both drugs and money how come you got your girlfriend's tax money in your pocket
23:00she know you got it she trust you with it yeah that's a good girlfriend you got to work oh
23:08you
23:09don't you must got a sugar mama good okay with no drugs present they've got to let him go again
23:19like I told you man make sure you get them brake lights fixed that's just asking to get pulled over
23:23cops can seize any amount over ten thousand dollars if they suspect it's dirty unfortunately for sergeant
23:30Stewart carrying fifty five hundred dollars isn't a felony a lot of these lower level guys are moving
23:39back and forth between these cities which are only a couple hours apart with you know ten thousand
23:44dollars six thousand dollars even twenty thousand dollars probably they're gonna be safe with that
23:49amount of money the cops only sees a small part of the income from America's one hundred billion
23:55dollar drug trade I've heard estimates that it's only one percent of what is going up and down the
24:01highways are being transported back to drug cartels in Mexico we're barely making it then
24:14three hundred miles south money transporter spins has made it a third of the way to Houston without
24:21drawing any unwanted attention like transporters across the nation he's carrying drug money for
24:28laundering by the cartel who will then package the cash in preparation for its journey across the border
24:41I guess you could say I'm the the hood bank I'll make sure that everything is where it's supposed
24:45to be I'm basically the accountant for my organization Capo directs the movement of dirty cash
24:55throughout the United States and into Houston whoever holding that crown for being the most responsible
25:01with the money make sure everything gets back in one piece and that's how it ended up being my
25:05situation of branching out to Atlanta and Miami's and New York's and New Jersey and Chicago he's
25:12waiting for spins and a dozen other cash transporters to deliver before he sends the money down to Mexico a
25:19tough week at the border where it's hard to get stuff across maybe a hundred thousand two hundred thousand
25:24when it's smooth you're talking millions weekly Capo smuggles money across the border to Nuevo Laredo
25:30but right now there's a problem all this work is going on over Mexico you know with this state
25:35line this is all Sinaloa territory this is our goal I said we will say capo works for the Gulf
25:44Cartel
25:44which controls Nuevo Laredo and the ongoing war with the Sinaloa Cartel makes Capo's cash shipments
25:54vulnerable this is where it's going down everybody's fighting for this right there this water that's
25:59game time so Capo keeps bodyguards nobody wants to die alone that's why I keep my family with me
26:06you're always going to see me with the soldier by my side somebody that's ready to die for me like
26:09I'll do for them he claims to have police on his payroll there's a lot of dirty cops out there
26:15a lot of them work for this sad to say that but yes someone's shooting
26:25gunfire is an everyday thing in the hood Capo's crew can't find the shooter
26:35the shot could be nothing or it could be a warning from a rival cartel
26:41but Capo only really worries about one thing that's my main thing to worry about that money
26:47that's all I care about some say I would have the easy job just collecting the money but
26:51we got the hard part got what everybody wants it's Capo's job to get the cartel money across the border
27:02Capo manages the cash coming into Houston via couriers we like to put it in hands of somebody that's you
27:08know dedicated to the family part of our organization because you never know when
27:12there's money involved who will run away or who will you know disappear unless at the end of the
27:16day you do get in trouble with something you won't be here no more and when it comes to
27:21collecting this cash he only trusts one man we're doing our regular routine going around collecting bread
27:29collecting our money that way we can get ready to go back down south
27:39v-star's job is to move dirty cash over the border but first he's working the streets of Houston
27:48meeting with transporters who have traveled from all over the USA to pay off their cartel debts
27:55just like that make it happen we can collect anything easy from 40,000 to 50,000 you know just
28:03one night but if the transporters don't show they could find themselves in trouble
28:10dead trouble if they end up owing money anything can happen from me telling the people down there in
28:17Mexico to come down here and chop the head off but collect this bread you know you don't want to
28:25come down to owing you know people money the cartel says jump you say how high how it's done
28:32let's get the out of here as the payments pile up v-star gets nervous
28:40people out here roaching who's trying to knock your hustle you know there's a lot of them out here
28:48in the street if you look everywhere all these bones don't got nothing to lose anything can happen
28:55anytime so can't be scared you got to be prepared for anything they're just lurking waiting for somebody
29:09after three hours he's finished his rounds he settles up with capo
29:17just in a few hours we got about a good 30,000 35,000 do that by another two or
29:24three days
29:26we'll be ready for next week go back down to Mexico
29:31every two weeks you know it's how we like to move you know because the product is moving you know
29:38the streets calling for it so you got to keep the money you know rotating
29:44and that rotation never stops capo just got a call from his bosses in mexico
29:53yeah it was one of those rush jobs that tomorrow this had to be done he's got to move a
29:58large
29:59quantity of cash within the city whatever time it is no matter if it's three in the morning we call
30:04they're gonna the boys gotta answer they know the money's right so he's building a trap in his vehicle
30:10this is one of our little hideouts so we kind of do a little bit of a little stash but
30:15another process of
30:16moving the money everything that moves around is through this these panels we buy them basically
30:23weld whatever box you're going to put you behind it we hit it with a seal that'll make it smell
30:27proof
30:27fireproof everything to imagine once that plate's built they'll weld it inside the frame of the truck
30:34my guys right here have done it all from gas tanks to
30:37cross floors airbags i'm talking like i said full mcgiver type setup
30:45yesterday's mystery gunshot has made capo philosophical you know you lose a lot of
30:50people in your family you know what i'm saying but your car is going to be called any day man
30:54i don't worry about that no more i ain't scared of that
30:58but moving this much cartel money he can't afford to take chances
31:03my lookout guys all up and down the street right now they give us a heads up
31:08at the first sign of trouble capo will get a call we get worried all day but like you said
31:15anybody
31:15can die at any moment it don't matter what kind of work you do yo it's a lookout and he's
31:23got news
31:25capo the money trafficker is getting ready to move millions of cartel cash when his lookout calls
31:32it's a false alarm so the crew continues building secret compartments in their vehicle
31:37it's about to be done it's like on the last well we're going straight to the truck
31:43we're going to close it up and put everything we love in there
31:52young boss serves as capo's chief trap builder
31:58right there in that little spot we fit over 125 000 in that one spot in one truck like this
32:04they could be a million dollars after three hours of work the trap gets the finishing touches
32:19the money is now ready for delivery this is a small run that's here in town
32:24so even if it's down the street we're going to make sure that we we cover our ass
32:28oh i'm excited when we're done it gets going on the road
32:34but the dirty money's still got to get packed for the journey south
32:39now i'm just getting ready to do what i do
32:41these stars houston office is a hub for smuggling cash into mexico we've got money coming from all
32:48over texas all over different states there's money coming from everywhere this last bag right here is
32:53from chicago he's vacuum sealing capo's money so the dogs don't sniff it out the last bag
33:01you know so now we're getting ready to go down south take down to mexico
33:10crossing the border is the riskiest part of the dirty money's journey
33:15v-star strategy drive it in a fully serviced black suv and play it cool you got your seat belt
33:22on you
33:22you put your signals on anything you don't do is just gonna cause the tension and it might get you
33:29pulled over
33:33down here once you get to the checkpoint you know you can't be nervous you got to make sure you're
33:37ready for the question that might ask you what you're doing down here you know how long you're
33:41going to be down here because if you're not ready you're going to get pulled over to the side you're
33:46going to get stripped all the way down you know down there at the border they ain't going to play
33:49with
33:50that that's that's all fed that's all federal right there
33:55it will take v-star five hours to drive from houston to laredo
34:01the city has five different bridges into mexico
34:05two for passenger vehicles one for trains and two for commercial vehicles
34:12it's the busiest inland port in the united states and a smuggler's paradise
34:24you have a lot of munitions but it's not enough you know just me that's not for me
34:29standing against the billion dollar tide of narco dollars is the anti-terrorist and contraband
34:35enforcement team
34:39these cops use high-tech scanners to seek out money stash deep within vehicles
34:45but the cartels keep responding with new tricks of their own the challenge you're working here is
34:52it's probably the scouts
35:00officer hernandez works bridge number one in the city center where the cartels have lookouts
35:07this bridge it's hard for us to target vehicles
35:10if you can see the pedestrian walkway there's people walking all over this all over the place
35:15they see us here and then people will find out and then you know they won't cross you'll see cars
35:20back over there that you know they'll turn around and hit back you know once they see us here
35:24it's not it's not easy
35:28the cartels play scouts as strategic positions along the border they use cb radios to give smugglers the
35:35coordinates of at set operations with thousands of passengers and commercial vehicles passing through
35:43each day officers must pick and choose who to stop
35:55before it used to be very easy you know you get this single male coming from you know up north
36:01going
36:01into deep into mexico and and that was it nowadays anybody's a smuggler nowadays you know what i mean
36:08we don't it's kind of hard to just target one group it's just like families trying to smuggle money
36:14into mexico older people younger people you know people that you don't expect those are the ones we
36:21kind of try to target a single male in a black suv grabs his attention a bmw
36:36they pull it over for inspection
36:41a high-end vehicle traveling deep into mexico seems unusual a preliminary search reveals no contraband
36:49we're gonna take this one uh the z portal to the extra machine over at bridge too but officer hernandez
36:54wants to scan the vehicle to check for a trap hiding money it's hurting people you know i mean
37:00don't utilize high-end vehicles i don't expect to check high-end vehicles but doing the unexpected
37:04sometimes gets results
37:14officer hernandez has flagged a suspicious car at the mexican border he thinks is transporting dirty cash
37:21and he's taking it to an x-ray to find out this is someone i'm coming from houston
37:27that he sells cars the driver's story doesn't add up
37:35unless he's under cartel protection his fancy car could make him a target for robbery or kidnapping
37:41across the border
37:46if there's cash hidden in the secret compartment the x-ray should find it
37:55right now it's looking good i haven't found i haven't found anything the only anomaly we see is that big
38:03guy
38:03driving
38:06all right thank you appreciate it man have a good one they let the driver go
38:16with around 26 000 vehicles passing into mexico every day catching money movers red-handed isn't easy
38:26the star makes it across the border and heads to cancun with his haul of dirty cash
38:32one step closer to the money laundry
38:43over four million tourists visit the beach destination each year
38:48unaware that they're helping launder dirty dollars on an industrial scale
38:54but one man has decided to take a stand
39:12pedro is investigating cartel money laundering in cancun
39:21pager believes 10 of these rooms remain empty their purpose to clean cash
39:53and this business model is spreading throughout mexico
40:16today pedro is investigating one of the cartels most lucrative laundering techniques
40:27but his investigation only gets so far
40:32when we go to these places
40:34and when we go to these places
40:35people are armed
40:36people are armed and threats and threats and threats you have to be removed
40:39and we don't have the confidence to come to the police to request the support
40:43or support
40:58Pedro has taken a huge risk, but he presses on with his mission regardless.
41:15Once the building work is finished, the cartel's construction company sells high to a cartel-owned
41:22front company. The result, money clean enough to bank. Following the paper trail only gets
41:29Pedro so far.
41:47Behind this administrative facade lurks an army of corrupt accountants and lawyers who
41:53make sure Pedro can never trace the money directly to the cartels.
41:57This company generated $10 million last year. This one was $5 million per year, $3 million.
42:07This is another company to kind of imagine whatever we want in these small rooms.
42:17Silvia is one of Cancun's biggest money launderers. It's her job to close the circle and get the
42:24cartel's dirty billions into the legitimate Mexican banking system.
42:28We create companies, but they are paper companies. She does it by generating complex financial
42:36structures. When the money gets back to our client, now we clean and with papers and we just
42:42get a small part of it so everybody wins. And their take home is huge. We can generate billions
42:53and billions. Maybe last year we had like 50 billion pesos.
42:58She's just taken delivery of $10 million in cash that a client wants clean.
43:02This money can come from drugs, smuggling or any kind of stuff that you can imagine, but we don't
43:11have to know and we don't want to know.
43:21After a 3,000 mile journey across the border, the cartel's money is now laundered. But the cycle
43:28continues, from the drug dealers making the dirty money in the States, to the scouts and transporters
43:36moving it across the border, and the cartel cells cleaning it in Mexico, the billion dollar tide continues to flow.