Venezuelan man has been charged with laundering drug profits to buy US aircraft to smuggle cocaine

A Venezuelan man has been charged with laundering drug profits to buy US aircraft to smuggle cocaine, according to US court documents, as the FBI broadens a probe into South American cocaine kings. The man, Pedro Jose Benavides-Natera, goes on trial in Miami next month and more arrests may be forthcoming, thanks to a confidential informant who shed light on the drug-money-for-aircraft laundering scheme, the documents show."