Amid Venezuela’s illegal gold heist are armed groups, gangs & elites, report says
via news.mongabay.com
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According to a new report, most of Venezuela’s gold is smuggled and laundered internationally through shell companies and opaque supply chains, including to the U.S. The operations are often controlled by military elites, guerrilla groups and transnational gangs, which exploit several loopholes and gaps in the U.S. financial and trade systems, the report by the […]