U.S: Manager Suspected of Laundering Money for Illegal Peruvian Gold Mines

According to a UN report about contemporary slavery, nearly 50,000 children "work in hazardous conditions in the mining industry" in Peru.

The charges against Granda indicate a crackdown in the U.S. on smugglers capitalizing on the growing worldwide consumption of illegally-mined gold from the Amazon basin, where mobs of laborers use fire hoses and mercury to extract pure gold from toxic pits, according to Bloomberg.

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/6208-u-s-manager-suspected-of-laundering-money-for-illegal-peruvian-gold-mines