Money Laundering, Narcotics and Forfeiture Section (MNF)

The Money Laundering, Narcotics and Forfeiture Section's (MNF) mission is to take the profit out of crime, eliminate drug cartels, and protect the U.S. financial system. MNF pursues criminal prosecutions and criminal and civil asset recovery actions involving financial facilitators and third party money launderers who conceal profits for cartels, drug traffickers, and other criminal organizations; financial institutions and their officers and employees who engage in money laundering, Bank Secrecy Act, and sanctions violations; international money laundering schemes and complex international forfeitures related to money launderers who support transnational organized crime; and global, targeted investigations of the top command and control of international drug trafficking organizations.  MNF is responsible for leadership of the Department's asset forfeiture program (AFP) and oversight of the Assets Forfeiture Fund (AFF).