The view from one of drug kingpin Alvaro Lopez Tardón’s Miami condominium units, which overlooks another unit he owned in a nearby high-rise. (PHOTO PROVIDED BY FBI)
International Investigation Dismantles Criminal Enterprise
FBI PRESS RELEASE 02/02/15
For years, Alvaro Lopez Tardón, a Spanish national, was living the high life in Miami—fancy cars, seaside condos, designer jewelry, and expensive leather goods. But it all came crashing down in the summer of 2011 when he was named in a U.S. federal money laundering indictment as the head of an international narcotics trafficking enterprise. His illicit enterprise was believed responsible for distributing more than 7,500 kilos of South American cocaine in Spain and laundering more than $14 million in illegal drug proceeds in the United States.
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