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Search results for "Paraguay" ...
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The Cloning Scam
"It is estimated that 37 thousand stolen vehicles are cloned every year in Brazil." To do so, they must use fake documents to pass car inspections, which allow them to receive counterfeit plates. To reveal all this activity, the reporter had to befriend these people and act as one of the gangs involved in the cloning scam. Also, the reporter learned how these criminal acts work and what it takes to pull this all off.
Tags: car cloning; Paraguay; gangs; drugs; criminal commerce; police; con; rip-off; inspections; cars
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Crossroads of Crime
"In a two part series, Trish Regan investigated counterfeiting (Part I) and terrorist fundraising (Part II) in the wild-west jungle town of Ciudad del Este, Paraguay. Although Ciudad del Este is largely unknown to Americans, intelligence officers regard the region as a lawless frontier, which is perhaps the most dangerous place in the Western Hemisphere. Located deep in the heart of South America and known as the tri-border region because it borders Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil, Ciudad del Este has become a safe haven for counterfeiters and terrorist organizations."
Tags: terrorism; money; fundraising; counterfeit; South America; Middle East; Hezbollah;
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No title (id: 13180)
The story is a first hand account of one couple's attempts to adopt a foreign baby through Today's Adoption Agency. It uncovers corrupt practices including taking money from couples for children from countries closed to foreign adoption and alleged baby selling.
Tags: Frankel One year in adoption hell Money Birth Paraguay Ukraine 6 pages
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No title (id: 12626)
The stories revealed a for-profit baby pipeline from Paraguay for U.S. adoptions. Former clients of a Minnesota "child finder" said she relied on corrupt Paraguayan attorneys, misrepresented the difficulty of adopting and instructed them to lie during the process. (Dec. 31, 1995)
Tags: Shaffer CAR The baby pipeline Contest entry Children 13 pgs.