The swimmers initially categorized it as a form of extortion.
Earlier this year the regulator received a letter from a Morgan Stanley employee, claiming that the manager of a Boston branch of the firm had used threats that "were nothing short of extortion" to force brokers to push a new offering, a mutual fund that, according to its prospectus, carried an unusually high fee.
While the killings and threats of extortion have forced thousands of retail businesses in Juárez to close and tens of thousands of residents to flee their homes for the safety of Texas, border business experts say the vibrancy of the city's manufacturing industry is due to what is and has always been the bottom line: money.
According to a recent report by Human Rights Watch, more than 50,000 of Buenaventura's residents have been forced to flee their homes since 2011 out of fear of extortion, death threats, or forced gang recruitment.
Al-Turki, a well-known member of Denver's Muslim community, was convicted in state court in 2006 of unlawful sexual contact by use of force, theft and extortion and sentenced to 28 years to life in prison.
The police accuse the rebels of extortion and of forcing villagers to send their young men for training as guerrillas.
The gang is known mainly for drug trafficking but has also been accused of extortion, illegal mining, forced disappearances and murder.
They accuse Mr Deri of extortion in trying to force the prime minister to do his bidding.
But that effort backfired when the officials returned home with tales of extortion of businesses, summary executions, forced recruitment of teenagers and other guerrilla abuses.
Reports of extortion, kidnapping and drugs at a casino on the Lao border with China forced its closure this year.
