Two men wanted in connection with a $50 million money laundering scheme have been brought back to Miami to face charges following their arrest in Colombia, FBI officials said Friday.
Santiago Orrego Gomez and Daniel Mauricio Gomez Garcia were taken into custody recently by the Colombian National Police.
On Thursday, they were turned over to the FBI in Medellin, before they were brought back to South Florida.
The arrests are part of “Operation Count It Up,” an FBI Miami investigation into sophisticated international money laundering activity, officials said.
The activity involves multiple states and wired funds and ATM cash deposits used to obscure the source of money, which includes narcotics proceeds, cryptocurrency conversions and elder fraud scam money, authorities said.