USING AI IN DUE DILIGENCE OFTEN EXPOSES CRIMINALS DUE TO THEIR MULTI-TASKING ACTIVITIES

His name was Ramon Navarro, and he was one of the real life desperados in my "Miami Vice" days, always whispered about by some of my clients. Known on the street as El Turco (The Turk), due to his Middle Eastern ethnicity, he specialized in stealing cash or drugs from traffickers, who could not very well report such strong-arm thefts to the police. Carrying a pistol in his sock, and a machine gun in the trunk, he was even known to bring his children along on his nighttime ripoffs. he received immunity from prosecution more than once due to his rendering of substantial assistance to law enforcement.

I once wrote about how he met his end, in an article on my blog entitled A Tale of Two Incidents, Miami 1991, Malta 2021 (February 10, 2021). Scheduled to be an important witness in the upcoming cocaine-for-100,000 M-16s trial of Panamanian General Manuel Noriega, he died in a mysterious and unsolved one-car crash in his BMW; it was no accident. A witness reported that a plainclothes civilian amazingly appeared, claiming to be a police officer, attended to Turco, and he suddenly expired.

Had artificial intelligence-powered platforms been in existence back them, individuals searching for information would have stumbled upon United States vs. William Saldarriaga, a then-pending 300 kilo criminal case actually in trial when Turco died. According to the facts of that case, which were later reported due to an appeal [987 F.2nd 1526 (11th Cir. 1526)], he was involved in a cocaine shipment seized by Colombian authorities in the Caribbean. That information was not available through normal resources, but an inquiry today would have found it in a heartbeat.

In performing due diligence, I often find that criminals have more than one thing going on at the same time, and it's that other activity which you tumble upon. Using resources employing AI gives you a better chance of finding that other thing earlier, rather than later. By the way, William Saldarraiga, a Colombian "businessman" was sentenced to the maximum, twenty years, and died in custody five years later. There are no happy ending to any of these stories.