Gifts from drug cartels to "narcotics" US
Le Monde.fr avec AFP |
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US Federal Drug Control Agency officers (Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA) received prostitutes, money, weapons and expensive gifts from drug cartels when they were investigating abroad reveals a report published Thursday, March 26.
The report of the Inspector General of the Department of Justice was made after the revelation that government agents had spent evenings with prostitutes during a presidential trip to Colombia in 2012. The investigation focused on the actions between 2009 and 2012 police officers from four federal agencies that monitoring drugs (AEDs), the controlling alcohol and weapons (ATF), the FBI and US Marshals in charge of flight safety, said in a statement accompanying the report .
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He relates how a particular movement dozen DEA agents allegedly involved in "several loud parties" with prostitutes. Seven admitted their participation and were suspended between two and ten days. "Over a period of several years,"these "orgies with prostitutes were financed by the local drug cartels for these DEA agents in their neighborhoods leased the US government "where were the laptops and Blackberry agents, creating" a potential security risk, "it said in the report. They took place between 2005 and 2008 but have been known in 2010.
Refusal to cooperate
"Although some DEA agents participating in these festivals have denied, information suggests that they should have known that these prostitutes were paid by the funds of a cartel," the report added. In addition, three special agents of the DEA would have received "money, expensive gifts and weapons of drug cartels." The inspector general said he was "concerned about the apparent decision DEA retain information" on this type of behavior and not to give access for several months and only after the case is closed.
Overall, the report points the FBI and the DEA for their refusal to cooperate with investigators, who fear the blow had not obtained all the information. He noted "weaknesses", a "lack of coordination" investigation or discipline those responsible agencies, regarding sexual abuses, sexual harassment and other "bad behavior" of their agents. This 132-page report also makes eight recommendations to the agencies concerned "revise" their procedures to prosecute acts of "sexual harassment and sexual misconduct" of their staff.
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