The Los Angeles Field Division of DEA is hosting a conference for senior DEA management personnel stationed throughout California. This conference is designed to provide training relative to the most current methods of identifying, investigating and prosecuting significant drug money-laundering organizations.

DEA retained the services of Robert Mazur to lecture conference attendees concerning advanced techniques used to investigate and dismantle global money-laundering organizations. During his presentations, Mr. Mazur will address the willful participation of certain international financial institutions in global money laundering schemes. In addition, he will review the mechanics of various commerce related money laundering schemes designed to conceal the laundering of tainted funds through apparent legitimate import/export transactions.

Mr. Mazur will also make presentations to the attendees about the inherent risk officers face as a result of managing informants and the techniques they can use to dramatically minimize that risk.

For more information about DEA and the agency's initiatives against international drug trafficking organizations, visit www.usdoj.gov/dea/.