16 March 2018
US Gold refinery Elemetal LLC, (Dallas, TX) doing business as “Elemetal” and “NTR Metals,” pled guilty to a count of failure to maintain an adequate anti-money laundering program, in violation of the Bank Secrecy Act, as part of a plea deal
justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr/u…
US Gold refinery Elemetal LLC, (Dallas, TX) doing business as “Elemetal” and “NTR Metals,” pled guilty to a count of failure to maintain an adequate anti-money laundering program, in violation of the Bank Secrecy Act, as part of a plea deal
justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr/u…
Aug 2012 to Nov 2016, Elemetal purchased and refined billions of dollars of gold from countries around the world, including from Central America, South America, the Caribbean and Europe.
Former NTR Metals Miami employees, Samer H. Barrage, Renato J. Rodriguez, and Juan P. Granda previously pled guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering
25 Jan 2022
Jesus Gabriel Rodriguez Jr, 45, fmr CEO of Transvalue, a transporter of gold & other valuables by armored truck, pled guilty to submitting false customs docs that hid the origin of gold imported into Miami as part of a $140M gold smuggling op
justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr/c…
Jesus Gabriel Rodriguez Jr, 45, fmr CEO of Transvalue, a transporter of gold & other valuables by armored truck, pled guilty to submitting false customs docs that hid the origin of gold imported into Miami as part of a $140M gold smuggling op
justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr/c…
Rodriguez admitted that he facilitated the importation of thousands of kilograms of gold being flown into the US from Curacao, knowing that the customs paperwork falsely represented the gold’s origins.
His co-conspirators were buyers who earned volume-based commissions by procuring gold for NTR Metals (now, Elemetal). NTR had anti-money laundering policies, like not buying gold from Curacao, a country with no gold mines, often used for smuggling illegally mined gold
Rodriguez helped co-conspirators dodge NTR Metals’ anti-money laundering policy and get the gold past U.S. Customs by working to conceal the gold’s origins and connections to Curacao.
This prosecution and the related cases are part of Operation Arch Stanton, which is a result of the ongoing efforts by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF), a partnership between federal, state and local law enforcement agencies.
The principal mission of the OCDETF program is to identify, disrupt, and dismantle the highest-level drug traffickers, money launderers, and other priority transnational criminal organizations that threaten the citizens of the United States
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