Accompanied by a hooded informer, a former worker in cocaine labs, a Colombian police antinarcotics unit lands at a coca field in a rural area in the south of the country. Many acres of coca plants have been destroyed. Ricardo Mazalan/Associated Press (Photo from the New York Times)Payments To Informants In Colombia Revealed
-- New York Times
-- New York Times
The Drug Enforcement Administration has paid more than $3.3 million to four confidential informants in an investigation that led to the arrest of a man prosecutors called an international arms dealer, according to court documents.
The man, Monzer al-Kassar, and a co-defendant, Luis Felipe Moreno Godoy, are scheduled to go on trial this week in Federal District Court in Manhattan. They are charged in a conspiracy to sell weapons to rebels in Colombia who wanted to kill Americans there. Opening arguments are to begin on Wednesday.
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My Comment: Considering the monies that these men raise for continuing the arm conflict in Colombia .... $3.3 million is cheap.
