Thread: Mexico says Gadhafi son tried to enter country

Mexico says Gadhafi son tried to enter country

Updated 18m ago

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico said Wednesday it has broken up an international plot to smuggle a son of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and his family into Mexico under false names and with false Mexican documents.

The elaborate plan to bring Al-Saadi Gadhafi to Mexico allegedly involved two Mexicans, a Canadian and a Danish suspect, Interior Secretary Alejandro Poire said.

The plot was uncovered in early September as Al-Saadi was fleeing Libya shortly after his father's ouster. He never made it to Mexico, but did reach the Western African country of Niger, where he has been living.

The plotters allegedly jetted into Mexico, opened bank accounts and bought properties meant to be used as safe houses in several parts of the country, including one at the resort of Bahia de las Banderas on Mexico's Pacific coast.

"The large economic resources which this criminal organization has, or had, allowed them to contract private flights," Poire told a news conference.

Poire said the leader of the plot was a Canadian woman he identified as Cynthia Vanier. He said she had been detained on Nov. 10 and is being held, along with three other suspects, under a form of house arrest on suspicion of falsifying documents.

Poire said Vanier "was the direct contact with the Gadhafi family and the leader of the group, and presumably was the person in charge of the finances of the operation."

The plot also allegedly involved a Mexican woman who lived in the United States, who Poire said served as the liaison to obtain the falsified Mexican identity documents.

A Danish man alleged served as "the logistic liaison" for the plan, Poire said.

"The activities of the criminal organization in our country included the falsification of official documents, the opening of bank accounts with false documents, the purchase of real estate that were intended, among other things, to serve as a residence for the Gadhafi family at a house located in the zone of the Bahia de Banderas," just north of the resort of Puerto Vallarta.

The Mexican officials made no mention of Moammar Gadhafi himself being involved in the plan. He was ousted from power in late August and was captured and killed in Libya on Oct. 20.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/stor ... 51696148/1

This comment was just priceless!

University of Tulsa
You mean they did not just let hm walk in. Well those racists!

Here is the rest of the story where the USA Today version stopped:

Gary Peters, the director of Ontario, Canada-based Can/Aust Security & Investigations International Inc., said in a telephone interview that he had worked as al-Saadi's North America security chief for several years and confirmed that Gadhafi had planned to travel to Mexico because "he was interested in buying property there in Punta Mita."

Al-Saadi had never been there before and "probably" read about it in a magazine, Peters said. "It's a pretty well-known place. It's a high-falutin place."

The resort features private villas, five-star hotels and a golf course.

Peters told The Associated Press he knew Vanier and confirmed that her role was to get travel documents for Gahdafi's son, but he said the arrangements were legitimate, as far as he knew.

"It wasn't smuggling. I don't understand how they're saying it was smuggling," he said.

The plan, Peters said, "was to help him get there on humanitarian rights." Asked if that meant he might have intended to file an asylum claim, Peters said "I can't really comment on it at the moment. Cindy's in jail now so I don't know what's going on down there."

"I don't know where these documents were coming from; that was all Cindy's area. I was just doing security," Peters said.

"As far as I knew, the contacts that she was talking to, they weren't going to be false, they were going to be legitimate documents." But he added he didn't know whether al-Saadi's name would appear on the passports. "I don't know whose name, I don't know, that wasn't my area."

Poire said the false travel documents were issued in the names of "Daniel Bejar Hanan, Amira Sayed Nader, Moah Bejar Sayed and Sofia Bejar Sayed." The Gadhafi name did not appear on any of the documents.

Peters said the plan for al-Saadi to travel to Mexico is now off, noting "that's not going to happen, obviously."

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/12 ... nted=print

" bought properties meant to be used as safe houses in several parts of the country, including one at the resort of Bahia de las Banderas on Mexico's Pacific coast."

I wonder about that statement. Mexico doesn't let Americans "buy property," they can only rent.

American buying land in Mexico (for sale, real estate, lease ...

http://www.city-data.com/forum/mexico/1 ... exico.html

Oct 31, 2007 – Yes Americans and other foreign citizens can buy property in Mexico, but there are some things that must be considered. Property located ...

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

American buying land in Mexico (for sale, real estate, lease ...

http://www.city-data.com/forum/mexico/1 ... exico.html

Oct 31, 2007 – Yes Americans and other foreign citizens can buy property in Mexico, but there are some things that must be considered. Property located ...

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Unless an American is married to a Mexican citizen, these 'land purchases' are nothing more than 50 year land leases, renewable at the discretion and whim of the corrupt Mexican government.

It is interesting that Mexico is still a magnet and notoriously famous to criminals of every persuasion and power from all over the world.

Another topic discussed very little is that unless you are a native-born Mexican, you cannot be a citizen of Mexico.