The Money Laundering

The Riviera Maya gang used proxies to send the profits of their criminal scheme from Mexico to Romania via hard-to-trace money transfer services such as Western Union and MoneyGram. The transfers were typically around 3,000 euros to avoid triggering money laundering alerts. Back in Romania, the leader of the gang, Florian Tudor, aka “The Shark,” invested some of the skimming profits in properties through a local company represented by his wife Rebeca. The gang also invested millions of dollars in real estate in Cancún and the U.S. as a way to clean their dirty money.