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Date: July 24, 2007 12:47:34 PM PDT
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Subject: Cough Medicine Kingpin Says He's Bagman for Bush-Backed
Mexican Political Party
Right-winger Calderon won Mexico's presidential election with the
narrowest of margins, through vote fraud (e.g., thousands of
ballots were unaccounted for) with the help of Bush's own election-
stealing experts
Mexico Watches Chinese Dealer Case
http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BFF386E53-4576-49B4-8B7F-
FA527E595998%7D)&language=EN
Mexico, Jul 18 (Prensa Latina) Mexicans are waiting for the US
press conference scheduled Wednesday by the defense team of Chinese-
born Mexican tycoon Zhenli Ye Gon, as he could make statements
involving the Mexican government.
Zhenli, accused of drug trafficking, said the over 200 million
dollars seized in one of his houses, which Mexican authorities
attribute to his illegal activity, belongs to the governing PAN
(National Action Party).
His lawyer Ning Ye said he will make disclosures today in US
territory, where the Mexican tycoon is a fugitive.
Mexican Labor Secretary Javier Lozano, who Zhenli said is the
person who gave him that money to allegedly use in the PAN campaign
last year, is also in the US, according to President Felipe
Calderon, to sue the Chinese-Mexican businessman for defamation of
character.
Investigations into Zhenli's alleged links with drug trafficking
date back to 2006.
Local press reports the Chinese-born tycoon was given Mexican
naturalization at the hands of then President Vicente Fox, on
February 3, 2003, an assertion backed by TV archives, which has
made a great impact on the public, who wonder why Zhenli was chosen
to represent the 700 foreigners who became citizens that day.
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Mexico denies official complicity in drug suspect's cash hoard
By James C. McKinley Jr.
July 4, 2007
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/04/news/mexico.php
MEXICO CITY
The Mexican government vigorously denied this week the accusations
of a Chinese-Mexican businessman who is wanted on drug charges here
but who asserts that $150 million found hidden in his mansion came
from members of President Felipe Calderón's party, including the
secretary of labor.
Zhenli Ye Gon, a naturalized Mexican citizen who owns a
pharmaceutical company, rocked the political world here recently by
suggesting, through his lawyer in New York, that the [Mexican]
labor secretary, Javier Lozano Alarcón, had threatened to kill him
last year unless he agreed to hide duffel bags stuffed with tens of
millions of dollars in his house.
On Tuesday, Lozano Alarcón issued a statement calling the charges
"false, absurd, untrue, crooked and perverse." A spokesman for
Calderón, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the
president had yet to make an official statement, said Zhenli
appeared to be making false charges as part of a strategy to broker
a deal with prosecutors here.
Mexico's attorney general, Eduardo Medina Mora, said in a televised
interview Monday that the idea that someone from Calderón's
campaign or cabinet would force Zhenli to hide money seemed
"ridiculous and fantastic."
"Evidently the man dedicated himself to the illicit importation of
pseudoephedrine, and this was sold to drug traffickers," the
attorney general said. "This money was the product of that activity."
He said the government had evidence that Zhenli, 44, had illegally
imported 19 tons of pseudoephedrine, a decongestant, and intended
to sell it to drug dealers who use it to manufacture
methamphetamine, a synthetic stimulant known on the street as "ice."
Zhenli denied the charge in an interview with The Associated Press
published Saturday; the news agency said the interview was given in
the New York office of his lawyer, Ning Ye.
Zhenli said that various party officials had delivered money for
him to hide, but he did not provide their names.
The Mexican authorities began investigating Zhenli in December,
after discovering an illicit shipment of pseudoephedrine on a boat
in the port of Lázaro Cárdenas, prosecutors say. The chemical was
being shipped to Unimed, a pharmaceutical company Zhenli started in
1997, they said.
On March 15, federal agents raided his home in an affluent section
of the capital. There they found about $205 million and $22 million
in other currencies and traveler's checks. The money was stuffed in
walls, suitcases and closets. They also seized eight luxury cars
and seven high-powered firearms.
At the time, Karen Tandy, the head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Administration, called the raid "the largest single drug-cash
seizure the world has every seen."
Zhenli, who was born in Shanghai and became a Mexican citizen in
2002, had disappeared before the raid. Eleven other people, among
them several of Zhenli's relatives, have been arrested and charged
with drug trafficking in connection with the seizures.
Over the weekend, the Mexican government said Zhenli's lawyers had
sent a letter to the Mexican Embassy in Washington threatening to
expose an alleged link between the cash found at his house and
Calderón's campaign unless prosecutors made a deal beneficial to
the accused businessman.
"These lawyers are unscrupulously and uselessly looking to
blackmail the Mexican government with absurd and untrue
statements," the attorney general's office said Sunday.
In the AP interview, Zhenli said the labor secretary, an important
member of Calderón's campaign last year, gave him about $150
million for safekeeping in May 2006, during the heat of the
electoral battle.
He also denied that the chemical he had imported was
pseudoephedrine, saying it was another chemical used in cough
medicines.
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