U.S. authorities secured a guilty plea from a Brazilian national in a $30M drug money laundering scheme that used cash couriers and structured transfers to evade detection

The defendants admitted conspiring to launder drug trafficking proceeds through a U.S.-based courier network that collected bulk cash in cities including Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Rochester and Tampa before depositing funds across the banking system. DOJ says the organisation used WhatsApp chains to coordinate couriers and facilitators and return profits to drug supply sources outside the United States, with each defendant…