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The owner of the transportation company Transvalue, based in South Florida, Jesús Gabriel Rodríguez Jr., was accused of being part of a millionaire plot that illegally entered gold from South America to the United States. United.
According to a Miami Herald report, Rodríguez Jr. faces an accusation for being part of an international plot of contraband in which it is calculated moved 140 million dollars in gold , for which it used the firm Transvalue INC, founded in 1992 in Miami.
The prosecution indicates that between March of 2015 and September 2016 the network imported “thousands of kilos of gold of illicit origin that was transferred to the United States from Curaçao”, an island that has no mines where extracted the gold.
The federal prosecutor by the southern district of Florida Walter Norkin, reported that the gold was illegally mined, possibly its origin is from Colombia , Venezuela or Peru , to later be entered with false documents through the Miami airport.
The gold buyers involved in the case operated in Latin America and South Florida. It was reported that those involved charged commissions when acquiring the metal for NTR Metals, a company also based in Miami, where it has a small refinery, and whose three main intermediaries are in prison after pleading guilty in 2017 “wash” $ 3, 600 millions of dollars.
According to a report by EFE, the parent company of NTR Metals was Elemetal, based in Dallas, Texas, and that after pleading guilty to not monitoring an anti-money laundering program paid a fine of $ 15, 000, 000 of dollars to the United States Government .
The complaint reveals gold shipments traveled through different countries before reaching their destination final in Miami, in whose airport documentation was presented that falsely indicated that the origin of the gold was located in the Cayman Islands.
Later, Rodríguez Jr. used the trucks Armored vehicles from your company to transport the smuggled gold from the Miami airport to the NTR Metals refinery. Official reports indicate that Rodríguez Jr. could have his first appearance in a federal court in Miami this week.
The Transvalue firm was in the news in 2015 after one of his armored vans was the victim of a hand-held assault armed on a highway in North Carolina. The three assailants, all of them later arrested, abducted 10 gold bars, valued at $ 5, 000, 04 of dollars.
The FBI was only able to recover one bar of gold, while the other nine were melted down and sold to buyers in a commercial premises in downtown Miami for the sale of jewelry .
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