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Colombia arrests 2 suspects in pyramid scheme
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BOGOTA, Colombia - Colombian police have arrested two more suspects in a pyramid scheme that authorities say cheated at least 200,000 people.
Police say 41-year-old William Suarez and 67-year-old Maria Amparo Guzman were captured Saturday at a farm north of the capital. Both face money laundering charges.
A police statement says more than 250 million pesos ($113,000) were seized from Suarez.
Suarez was a partner in DMG, which was shuttered in November. Authorities called it a pyramid scheme that laundered drug money and raked in hundreds of millions of dollars last year.
Guzman is the mother of DMG owner David Murcia and was allegedly involved in the company.
Murcia is already in jail; his wife was arrested Jan. 13 in Uruguay.
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