| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | October 2008 
Mexico Nabs Major Drug Cartel's Money Man
 Agence France-Presse
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| | File picture shows guns and munitions confiscated from alleged Mexican drug dealers. A suspected finance officer for the feared Gulf Cartel, one of Mexico's main drug trafficking syndicates, has been captured in a joint operation with the United States, Mexican justice officials announced. (AFP/Omar Torres) | | |
Mexico City - A suspected finance officer for the feared Gulf Cartel, one of Mexico's main drug trafficking syndicates, has been captured in a joint operation with the United States, Mexican justice officials announced.
The "financier" Wenceslao Alvarez was arrested Wednesday along with four other suspects when they accompanied a soccer team belonging to the cartel to a game in Mexico City.
The officials said the suspects's whereabouts were determined through information exchanges with the United States, with whom Mexico collaborates in international anti-drug operations.
Alvarez is suspected of "controlling the purchase, reception, transport and distribution of marijuana and cocaine destined for the United States ... and has been linked for some time to the criminal Gulf Cartel organization," the Chief Prosecutor's office said in a statement.
Alvarez is also suspected of handling money laundering operations for the Gulf Cartel and La Familia, another drug cartel in eastern Michoacan state.
The US Drug Enforcement Administration on September 16 seized 7.6 million dollars in assets belonging to Alvarez in Atlanta, Georgia, as part of the joint "Operation Project Reckoning" with Mexican authorities, the statement added. |
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