Importation of cocaine into Australia: the money trail

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Thursday, 15 February 2018 19:37

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Our investigation advance on the export of cocaine to Australia involving Mélina Roberge, Isabelle Lagacé and André Tamine, most tracks are many.

It is by focusing on the financial profiles of the trio, it was discovered that several companies have been allegedly used as front companies.

One thing is for certain, as of 2011, an organization appears to be served Lagacé to send funds to the four corners of the globe.

Companies to number

The 30-year old woman is listed as a director of four companies linked to one of the actors of the conspiracy alleged, a businessman close to narcotics underworld in jewish and suspected of having recruited the three mules who transported cocaine in Australia.

Our investigation agency knows his identity, but preserves his anonymity, since he is not the subject of charges.

Three of these companies, companies in number, have fired a total of 158 497 and$ 165 288 US$ to Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, China, the United States, Singapore and Israel.

Two of them have as their address a post office box of the firm UPS delivery, in the centre of the city of Montreal, rented in the name of the suspect close to the underworld jewish. The police believe that Lagacé acts as nominee in these companies, in order to disguise money transfers international.

Nominee against his will

Another numbered company is domiciled in a building business in Laval. On paper, the company as the sole shareholder of a woman who had never heard of this business of his life.

“There are investigators who come in to me, but I didn’t even know what to respond to that, said Julie Carrier, a manucuriste of Laval. Me, I didn’t even know who it was, Isabelle Lagacé!”

According to the authorities, it has nothing to do with the financial transactions of the company. Obviously, his identity has been usurped in order to facilitate the transactions of the group, which now finds itself at the centre of a conspiracy alleged export involving a couple of people in six different countries.