Swiss giving Mexico U.S.$74 million linked to Salinas clan





By Balz Bruppacher
ASSOCIATED PRESS

7:42 a.m. June 18, 2008

BERN, Switzerland –[b] Swiss authorities will hand over US$74 million to the Mexican government from bank accounts linked to the brother of Mexico's former president Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the Justice Ministry said Wednesday.
The ministry statement said the money is “clearly of criminal origin.â€