More on the Financial Combat of Organized Crime

An NGO* in Mexico City has identified 1,639 bank accounts used in telephone extortion schemes. More:

"We send this information to the Financial Intelligence Unit of the government of Mexico City, so that they act as a result.

"Now, we propose that the banking laws facilitate the provision of information to the authorities about the names on the accounts used for the deposits from extortion," explained [Meyer] Klip [the leader of a citizens group in Mexico City].

"May the accounts where illegally earned money is deposited be turned over the authorities, so that it eventually detains the perpetrators, because some way or other they will continue profiting.

That seems like something the government should be able to accomplish without too much difficulty.

*I'm not sure about this group, but the "non" in Mexico's NGOs is often not quite absolute. Perhaps we need a new term: Sort-of Governmental Organization, or SOGO.