Colombia arrests 2 suspects in pyramid scheme


	Colombia arrests 2 suspects in pyramid scheme

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1-17-2009 9:35 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1cfa0efe-4544-4862-a05c-b69c3f6070ff/C5A997E2-8984-4D34-A2D0-592586216D26/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/business/2009/01/17/D95P92781_lt_colombia_pyramid_scheme/index.html" href="http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/business/2009/01/17/D95P92781_lt_colombia_pyramid_scheme/index.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.salon.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/business/2009/01/17/D95P92781_lt_colombia_pyramid_scheme/index.html"><H1>Colombia arrests 2 suspects in pyramid scheme</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/business/2009/01/17/D95P92781_lt_colombia_pyramid_scheme/index.html"><P>Jan 17th, 2009 | BOGOTA, Colombia --  Colombian police have arrested two more suspects in a pyramid scheme that authorities say cheated at least 200,000 people.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/business/2009/01/17/D95P92781_lt_colombia_pyramid_scheme/index.html"><P>Police say 41-year-old William Suarez and 67-year-old Maria Amparo Guzman were captured Saturday at a farm north of the capital. Both face money laundering charges.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/business/2009/01/17/D95P92781_lt_colombia_pyramid_scheme/index.html"><P>A police statement says more than 250 million pesos ($113,000) were seized from Suarez.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/business/2009/01/17/D95P92781_lt_colombia_pyramid_scheme/index.html"><P>Suarez was a partner in DMG, which was shuttered in November. Authorities called it a pyramid scheme that laundered drug money and raked in hundreds of millions of dollars last year.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/business/2009/01/17/D95P92781_lt_colombia_pyramid_scheme/index.html"><P>Guzman is the mother of DMG owner David Murcia and was allegedly involved in the company.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/business/2009/01/17/D95P92781_lt_colombia_pyramid_scheme/index.html"><P>Murcia is already in jail; his wife was arrested Jan. 13 in Uruguay.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C5A997E2-8984-4D34-A2D0-592586216D26/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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