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03-16-2007, 02:32 PM #1
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$206M (U.S.) found in Mexico City house
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$206M (U.S.) found in Mexico City house
Bundles of cash crammed in drawers, closets, suitcases
Mar 16, 2007 01:53 PM
Reuters
MEXICO CITY – Police have found $206 million in cash, belonging to drug smugglers who imported chemicals used to make methamphetamines, piled inside a mansion in a wealthy Mexico City neighborhood, officials said Friday.
Police arrested seven people at the house. They found wads of hundreds of dollars stuffed in drawers, suitcases and closets around the house.
They also seized six Mercedes Benz vehicles and two other cars along with seven firearms, 200,000 euros and machinery used to make tablets.
The raid was one of the first dramatic successes in a clampdown on drug cartels launched by Mexican President Felipe Calderon shortly after he took office in December.
In January, Mexico extradited several drug kingpins to the United States, including Osiel Cardenas, boss of the powerful Gulf cartel.
Calderon has sent thousands of troops to drug crime hot spots including his home state of Michoacan, whose mountain ranges are riddled with laboratories producing methamphetamine for export to the United States.
The attorney general's office, which operates the police force that led the raid, said the money belonged to a drug gang operating behind a pharmaceuticals front company.
The company imported from India tonnes of the chemical pseudoephedrine, used in the manufacture of methamphetamines.
The raid was the result of an investigation which started last December when police seized 19.5 tonnes of pseudoephedrine in Mexico's Lazaro Cardenas port, the attorney general's office said.
Mexican producers of methamphetamine are muscling in on the U.S. market as police crack down on labs in the United States, according to a recent report by the U.S. Justice Department's National Drug Intelligence Center.
Following the U.S. crackdown, so-called superlabs that mass produce methamphetamine have relocated to Mexico, where precursor chemicals like ephedrine are more easily available.
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03-16-2007, 02:46 PM #2
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If the Mexican cops say they found $206,000,000 how much do you think they really found?
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03-16-2007, 03:30 PM #3
Another story on this bust.
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206 million in meth money seized in Mexico
By Héctor Tobar, Times Staff Writer
11:47 AM PDT, March 16, 2007
(photo) Stack of cash
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MEXICO CITY -- In the largest cash seizure in Mexican history, authorities confiscated $206 million in U.S. currency from a band of methamphetamine producers headquartered in a ritzy neighborhood here, officials said today.
Two of the seven people arrested at the home were Chinese, and authorities said the bust hinted at the vast scope of an illegal drug trade that links Mexico to Asia.
Authorities said the arrests came after an investigation that began in December, when authorities seized 20 tons of pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient in the production of methamphetamines, at the Mexican Pacific port of Lazaro Cardenas.
Mexican drug trafficking organizations have become increasing important in the wholesale and retail trade in methamphetamines in the United States because American authorities have placed tougher controls on the sale of the chemicals used to produce the highly addictive drug.
Mexico's attorney general's office said the December seizure in Lazaro Cardenas led authorities to a chemical company, Unimed Pharm Chem, based in the city of Toluca, about 50 miles west of Mexico City.
"The resulting investigation showed that this company illegally imported pseudoephedrine acetate from India," the attorney general's office said in a statement. "These chemicals are used to illegally produce methamphetamines."
Mexican police raided the home Thursday in Lomas de Chapultepec, a neighborhood home to some of this city's wealthiest residents and to many members of the diplomatic corps.
Officials said they worked past midnight to count the bills, which were hidden inside walls, suitcases and closets.
The cash seized was mostly in U.S. $100 bills and weighed at least 4,500 pounds. It was five times the amount seized in all of 2006 by Mexican authorities in anti-narcotic and money laundering operations.
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03-16-2007, 04:59 PM #4
Another job that americans will not do but then again for that type of money most americans might do it.
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03-16-2007, 05:01 PM #5
Maybe George just dropped it off on his way through town this week.
It's like hell vomited and the Bush administration appeared.
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