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A joint investigation by the U.S. and Brazil culminated with the Aug. 20 arrest of three suspected leaders of a "prolific" crime group accused of smuggling dozens of individuals from Africa and the Middle East through South America and into the United States. The investigation was supported by the Extraterritorial Criminal Travel Strike Force, or ECT, a little-known, decade-old U.S. program run by the Department of Homeland Security with the participation of the Justice Department. In an interview with ACAMS moneylaundering.com senior reporter Valentina Pasquali, David Rybicki, a senior official in the Justice Department's Criminal Division who oversees participation in...