The Federal Prosecutor’s office, assisted by agents from the Agencia Federal de Investigación-Policía Federal Preventiva (AMPF) raided a house at Sierra Madre 515, Lomas de Chapultepec, securing about 205.6 million U.S. dollars, 200,000 Euros and 157,500 Pesos.
According to the Prosecutor’s press statements, a late model Toyota, a Land Rover and six Mercedes-Benzes, as well as two long-arms and five short arms and pill-making equipment were confiscated. One woman and six men were taken into custody.
The raid was part of a money laundering and anti-narcotics trafficing investigation, which since 2006 has targeted the Sinaloa cartel, headed by Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán.
Initial reports from the Prosector’s Office only said that more than $100 million had been recovered.
Raymundo Campos Erik, Tomoyi Mars Yu, Zhn Wei Yi, Arturo Rubio Valdez, Jiovani Delgado González, Alejandro Becerra Turral y Francisco Sertuche Vázquez were turned over to the Ministerio Público, which will determine individual charges.
Aprehension orders were obtained from the Tenth Judicial Court of the First District Penal Division in the Federal District, on a ministerial petition to procede against illegal activities tied to Unimed Pharm Chem de México, S.A. de C.V.
According to the investigative report, the business illegally imported clorhidrate of pseudophedrine from India to use in manufacturing methamphetamines.
Inconvenient question… where did the cash come from, and who buys all that meth?
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