Colombian Model Pleads Guilty to Leading Drug Money Laundering Ring in the U.S.

Colombian model Valentina Forero Álvarez this week plead guilty of leading a multi-state criminal organization that used the U.S. financial system to launder more than $31 million in drug trafficking proceeds.

In a press release, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia informed that Forero Álvarez, a 33 year-old woman from the Colombian city of Armenia, plead guilty on Tuesday.

U.S. Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg detailed that the Colombian national directed a network of couriers who traveled to Colombia to launder the illegal drug trafficking money through the U.S. banking system.

As part of the laundering scheme, the…

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