$205 million drug bust in Mexico
Mexican police have seized $205 million after
raiding a house in an exclusive neighborhood of the capital.
Mexican police have seized $205 million after raiding a house in an exclusive neighborhood of the capital, the attorney general’s office has said. Seven people were arrested at the house in the Lomas de Chapultepec district, where police discovered wads of US bank notes in bulging cases and stacked to the ceiling in closets on Friday.
Mexican media said the haul was four times the amount of drug-related money confiscated in Mexico during all of last year.
Police said the money belonged to a drug gang that smuggled chemicals used to make methamphetamine, a powerful stimulant.
The attorney general’s office said the gang operated behind a pharmaceuticals front company which imported tonnes of the chemical pseudoephedrine, used in making methamphetamine, from India.
Meth certainly is becoming the drug of choice - for making lots and lots of money in Mexico.
Posted: Sat - March 17, 2007 at 06:16 AM