NTR Metals is the largest money-laundering prosecution involving precious metals in U.S. history, authorities say. “The scope of the conspiracy is enormous,” federal prosecutor Francisco Maderal told a judge during a hearing in Miami last year. Last March, federal prosecutors in Miami charged 3 NTR traders with money laundering, saying the three men bought $3.6 billion of illegal gold from criminal groups in Latin America.

NTR struck a rich vein, becoming the largest U.S. importer of Peruvian gold with $980 million worth of deals. They did it with help from Peruvian businessman Pedro Pérez Miranda





Gangsterism Outhttps://gangstersoutt.blogspot.ca/2018/01/gold-ferrari-of-money-laundering-peter.html

The Ndrangheta are even involved in illegal gold mining in South America, maybe not in this particular case but they are in to that buisness.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-...-take-shine-off-latin-american-gold-peru


Yet some of the world’s most active paramilitary and organised crime groups are directly involved in the production and sale of this illegal gold, from the Farc guerrilla group in Colombia, to Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel and Italy’s ’Ndrangheta mafia, as well as Chinese, Brazilian and Russian syndicates