MoneyGram messenger charged with Money Laundering

A seventh name was added to the list of persons charged with Money Laundering in connection to one point five million dollars found in the home of the Coye family that operated a MoneyGram agency. Twenty-three year old Anthony Matute was a messenger for the money transfer company and he was granted bail of fifty thousand dollars when he appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers. Attorney Arthur Saldivar, told News Five this evening that Matute is being victimized because he did not tell the police and the Financial Intelligence Unit what they wanted to hear in his statement; information Saldivar says, his client doesn’t have. According to Saldivar, Matute was called in by police and voluntarily gave a statement in Sandhill on January twenty-second. But the attorney is claiming that since then, Matute has been taken to the police Station and kept for forty-eight hours on several occasions. And when he wouldn’t change his statement, the F.I.U. and police department allegedly opted to charge Matute with Money Laundering. Saldivar further explained that the Coye family was charged in January and if Matute was guilty of anything, he would not have stayed in the country and made himself available to the police numerous times. Matute will return to court on July tenth along with Michael and Merlene Coye, their children Melanie and Jude, as well as Melanie’s husband James Gerou.