{"id":674656,"date":"2026-10-23T03:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T03:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=857902"},"modified":"2026-10-23T03:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T03:30:19","slug":"colombian-police-dismantle-42m-crypto-drug-laundering-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/23\/colombian-police-dismantle-42m-crypto-drug-laundering-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombian Police Dismantle $42M Crypto Drug Laundering Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/man-captured-by-colombian-authorities-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Man Captured By Colombian Authorities\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>The operation involved movements across four different locations to capture &#8220;Gallo,&#8221; the head of an organization accused of drug trafficking and crypto laundering in Puerto Rico, and Nassim Vasquez, indicted in New York for laundering over $42 million with cryptocurrency. Colombia Announces Eight Detentions Involved in Laundering Money From Drug Trafficking Organizations Colombia is tightening [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The operation involved movements across four different locations to capture &#8220;Gallo,&#8221; the head of an organization accused of drug trafficking and crypto laundering in Puerto Rico, and Nassim Vasquez, indicted in New York for laundering over $42 million with cryptocurrency. Colombia Announces Eight Detentions Involved in Laundering Money From Drug Trafficking Organizations Colombia is tightening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":674657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-674656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}