by the El Reportero news services
The main television channel, Televisa, claimed on Sept. 14 that three of the policemen responsible for the biggest drug bust in Mexican history earlier this year had been killed. The raid on Zhenli Ye Gon’s Mexico City apartment in March found US$205m in cash.
Zhenli Ye Gon, who is now under arrest in the US, claimed that the money had been given to him by Javier Lozano Alarcón, the current labour minister, to help meet 2006 election expenses for the ruling Partido Acción Nacional.
Zhenli had some influence with senior members of the previous administration headed by President Vicente Fox, so the case against him has major political implications. The Mexican police say that Zhenli was a hugely successful producer and smuggler of methamphetamines to the U.S.
