US Security Firms Crack Down Terrorism & Transnational Crime in South America

Torres AES Trains Officials to Counter Terrorism & Trans-National Criminal Networks

Warrior Global Security Staff

The fluid and more loosely-governed border area separating Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay continues to generaate substantial concern about international criminal activity and its relationship to terrorist financing – prompting ongoing local and multi-national responses.

Referred to as the Tri-border área, the region has been an attractive draw for Iranian-backed terrorist groups such as Hezbollah and criminal organizations interested in moving illegal money, staging operations and helping to fund international terrorist activity.

Torres Advanced Enterprise Solutions, a private security and training firm supporting the U.S and a range of friendly foreign governments, has been expanding training courses for U.S. and international entities interested in cracking down on these activities.

The Torres-taught training course, called “Anti-Money Laundering and Asset Forfeiture Course for Prosecutors,” zeroes in on the troubling, yet well-documented connection between terrorist funding and transnational criminal organizations.

The training focus is to further enable U.S. and host country counterterrorism and law enforcement officials to “track the money sources” and better identify the flow of questionable transactions.

Recently submitted expert testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee, Subcommittee on counterterrorism and intelligence, specifically cites the dangerous overlap between transnational crime and terrorism in this area of South America.