Jun 30, 2021 · Smurfing is a money-laundering technique involving the structuring of large amounts of cash into multiple small transactions. Smurfs often spread these small transactions over many...

Jun 30, 2015 · Smurf: Decoy depositors who take a cut to help cartels launder money. Usually makes bank deposits under $10,000 a day to avoid government suspicion. Trap: A secret compartment in a vehicle to...

Dec 29, 2020 · Another way cartels are funneling money is through “smurfs”. Smurf or smurfing is a term used for a money launderer, someone who deposits illegally gained money into bank accounts for...

Feb 13, 2025 · Campaign contributions and bribery kept the contraband empire of Colombia’s most important smuggler alive for decades, according to authorities that are seeking his extradition. President Gustavo Petro said over the weekend that Diego Marin, a.k.a. “Papa Smurf,” sought to contribute COP3 billion ($12.4 million) to his 2022 campaign.

In mid-September 2004, a wiretap on Rafael "Smurf" Allison, a low-level crack dealer in Atlanta, led an HIDTA task force to Decarlo Hoskins, a mid-level dealer. Hoskins informed them that he had grown up with two brothers, Omari McCree and Jeffrey Leahr, who were BMF members and able to supply multi-kilogram quantities of cocaine regularly.

Feb 23, 2011 · Official police intelligence reports claim that after the kidnapping and subsequent rescue of “El Mayo's” niece, (which occurred last November in Tijuana), the Arellano-Felix Cártel (CAF) washed their hands of “El Sillas."

Jul 23, 2009 · Cartel leader Alfredo Beltran Leyva, arrested last year, is "El Mochomo," a big, nasty biting ant from northwestern Mexico. Many of the traffickers revel in their nicknames.

Los Viagras expanded into the drug trade, first by becoming involved in the production and transportation of methamphetamine, which brought them into a turf dispute with the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, particular the Tierra Caliente region of Michoacán.

Another important leader of the community self-defense forces in Michoacán and Guerrero was Estanislao Beltrán-Torres who was nicknamed "Papa Smurf", who took the main leadership in the time Mireles was injured.

Jul 3, 2015 · After Dr. Mireles suffers severe injuries in a plane crash (a suspected assassination attempt) and has to spend months recuperating, he turns over his command to a hirsute comrade nicknamed Papa Smurf, whose management (and ethical) style seems much different.