Dirty Blonde Colombian Female Fugitive

Wanted by the Policía Nacional de Colombia for Money Laundering

October 10, 2008

BOGOTA NEWS -- Dirty blonde, Maria Del Pilar Henao-Vergara is a female fugitive most wanted by police in Bogota, Colombia for criminal charges of money laundering. Normally, money laundering in Colombia is closely linked with the laundering illegal drug proceeds from sales in other countries.

Most drug lords who live in Colombia rarely leave the country, therefore, they need Colombia pesos in order to conduct business such as buying protection, paying coca producers, lab costs, and smuggling fees. When Colombian drugs are sold on the streets of the United States, huge quantities of US dollars are collected and must be converted into pesos. Colombian money launderers accomplish this task.

The Colombian money laundering system, known as the Colombian Black Market Peso Exchange (BMPE), is an informal currency exchange system. Middlemen called "Peso brokers" serve as liaisons between drug traffickers and companies as well as individuals in Colombia who wish to purchase U.S. dollars outside the legal Colombian banking system. Obvious reasons for illegal currency exchange vary, but most often these companies and individuals avoid paying taxes, import duties and transaction fees that are owed to the Colombian government.

Maria Del Pilar Henao-Vergara

The BMPE system involves a three-stage process. First, drug traffickers enter into contracts with peso brokers who will deliver pesos in Colombia in return for drug money (cash) in the United States and Canada. Next, the peso broker uses accounts in the United States or other countries outside Colombia to place the drug money into the international banking system. Finally, the peso broker enters into contracts with Colombian companies or persons who can deliver pesos to the broker in exchange for a wire transfer in U.S. dollars.

Colombian money launderers never leave a paper trail. Contracts are made verbally, therefore, the disconnection created between the peso transactions occurring in Colombia and the dollar transactions occurring outside Colombia, makes the money laundering extremely difficult to detect by international law enforcement. Do to these advantages, the BMPE system is the primary method Colombian drug traffickers launder drug money.

So, as you can see, money launderers in Colombia such as, Henao-Vergara, are not just working street corners exchanging currency for tourists, they are a sophisticatedly organized group of criminals dealing in black market proceeds worth millions in currency.

Maria Del Pilar Henao-Vergara speaks fluent English and Castilian Spanish. She is described as:

• Birth Date: May 24, 1961
• Age: 47
• POB: Bogota, Colombia
• Height: 1.70 meter - 67 inches
• Eyes: Blue or Green, possibly Hazel
• Hair: Dirty Blonde
• Complexion: Light
• Sex: Female
• Race: Hispanic
• Nationality: Colombia

Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of Dirty blondeMaria Del Pilar Henao-Vergara, a most wanted female fugitive from Bogota, Colombia, should contact local law enforcement, Interpol, and Policía Nacional de Colombia.

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