Some countries fish for sharks, some eat them or parts of them, and some just move shipments along.
Mr. Levey said Mr. Joumaa, whose assets in the United States were frozen last month by the department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, moved shipments of cocaine from Colombia through West Africa to buyers in Europe.
In the most common scam, shelf companies move shipments of high-value goods (typically, mobile phones) in and out of EU states and pick up VAT repayments each time.
"Their back-end processing and efforts to move shipments around the country have never done well, whereas that's what FedEx does best".
The agents moved shipments of hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal cash across borders in an attempt to gain a better understanding of the workings of the cartels.
The company has five mostly separate shipping networks of trucks, airplanes, sales forces and workers— one for overnight service, one for ground packages, one offering critical shipments, another to move cargo globally and logistics operations (contracts to manage factory inventories, and so on).
The company has five mostly separate shipping networks of trucks, airplanes, sales forces and workersone for overnight service, one for ground packages, one offering critical shipments, another to move cargo globally and another for logistics operations (contracts to manage factory inventories, and so on).
It is not only moving large shipments of drugs that is lucrative for the cartels, however.
War Dogs does a good job explaining how two low-level schnooks willing to scrounge for government crumbs could do very well moving small shipments of weapons from god-knows-where to Iraq in 2005 and 2006.
Prosecutors say Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán was also nicknamed "El Rapido" because he was known for quickly moving drug shipments into the United States.
