Law360, New York ( April 30, 2015, 12:42 PM EDT) -- On April 21, 2015, the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network issued a geographic targeting order, an anti-money laundering device focused on trade-based money laundering schemes used by drug cartels, including Sinaloa and Los Zetas, to launder illicit proceeds through businesses in South Florida.[1] FinCEN stated that the GTO, the third such order issued publicly by the anti-money laundering agency since August 2014, was served on about 700 electronics exporters in and around Miami. An ongoing criminal investigation conducted jointly by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations and the Miami Dade State Attorney's Office South Florida Money Laundering Strike Force has revealed that many electronics exporters are exploited as part of sophisticated trade-based money laundering schemes in which drug proceeds in the United States are converted into goods that are shipped to South America and sold for local currency, which is ultimately transferred to drug cartels....