In an interview with ACAMS moneylaundering.com, David Rybicki, a senior official in the Justice Department's Criminal Division who oversees participation in the ECT, discussed how human smugglers move their "clients" into the U.S. and what financial traces they may leave behind.
U.S. financial institutions submitted fewer than 50 reports on transactions involving suspected human traffickers over a three-month period last year, a low figure that analysts said underscores the difficulties of identifying the crime.