| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | October 2008 
Mexico Probing Dozens of Drug Infiltration Cases, Vega Says
 Adriana Lopez Caraveo & Jens Erik Gould - Bloomberg
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| | Salvador Vega Casillas | | |
Mexico's anti-corruption chief Salvador Vega Casillas said the government is investigating dozens of public officials accused of collaborating with narcotics traffickers.
The federal comptroller's office has opened 56 cases to probe drug-related corruption since President Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006, Vega Casillas said. Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora said Oct. 28 that workers at his office gave information to drug traffickers in the worst case of infiltration of law enforcement by drug cartels in 10 years.
"We have investigations open in various parts of the government in order to be able to attack this issue," Vega Casillas told reporters at Congress today.
The U.S. has agreed to provide $400 million in aid this year to help Mexico tame violence related to organized crime and drug trafficking, which has resulted in more than 4,000 killings this year in Mexico. U.S. authorities said Oct. 28 they are investigating reports that a worker at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City passed information to a drug cartel.
Mexican cartels have grown rich by selling $13.8 billion a year worth of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and amphetamines to the U.S., according to White House figures.
To contact the reporters on this story: Adriana Lopez Caraveo in Mexico City at adrianalopez(at)bloomberg.net; Jens Erik Gould in Mexico City at jgould9(at)bloomberg.net |
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