Businessweek:
Mario Ernesto Villanueva Madrid, the former governor of the state of Quintana Roo, was charged in two indictments, one that accused him of conspiring to import “hundreds of tons” of cocaine into the U.S. and a second alleging he laundered almost $19 million through accounts at Lehman Brothers, said Yusill Scribner, a spokeswoman for the office of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.
Villanueva accepted millions of dollars in bribes from the Juarez Cartel, a drug organization in Mexico, in exchange for assisting in the importation of more than 200 tons of cocaine, prosecutors said. A federal judge ordered that Villanueva be evaluated by doctors at a state jail in Valhalla, New York, after his lawyer said Villanueva suffers from lung disease.
No comments:
Post a Comment