Miami resident charged with leading money laundering operation for transnational criminal organizations

Feb. 21, 2025 — Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, an indictment was unsealed charging Alain Bibliowicz Mitrani, a resident of Miami, Florida and a citizen of France and Colombia, with conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business. The defendant was charged for his role as a leader of a scheme to launder more than $300 million, including for persons affiliated with cartels and other transnational criminal organizations engaged in drug trafficking, such as the Sinaloa Cartel. The defendant is scheduled to make his initial appearance today in federal court in the Southern District of Florida. He will be arraigned in the Eastern District of New York at a later date.  Read More