WORLD IN BRIEF : SPAIN : $1 Million in Drug Lord’s Funds Frozen
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A judge froze three bank accounts containing more than $1 million deposited by a Colombian drug trafficker, a Madrid newspaper reported. El Pais reported the accounts, at Banco Bilbao Vizcaya and Banco de Santander, had been opened under a false name by the late Gustavo Gaviria, former No. 2 man in Colombia’s Medellin cartel. The Justice Ministry said it could not comment on the report. Spanish banks recently took steps to crack down on the laundering of drug money.
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