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U.S. seeks to seize property of ex-Mexican official
Source: Reuters
U.S. seeks to seize property of ex-Mexican official
By Jim Forsyth and Jared Taylor
Wed May 23, 2012 12:59am EDT
(Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday moved to seize millions of dollars' worth of real estate in Texas that a former governor of a Mexican state is accused of buying with payments from drug cartels and from criminal extortion and bribery schemes.
Tomas Yarrington, the former governor of Tamaulipas, Mexico, was not charged criminally but two civil lawsuits were brought against him in U.S. federal court. He is accused of "using his illicit income from his political years to become a major real estate investor" in the United States and launder millions of dollars in proceeds from drug trafficking activities.
One of the properties was a condo in the resort community of South Padre Island, at the southern tip of Texas, and the other was a larger site in San Antonio, prosecutors said.
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By Jim Forsyth and Jared Taylor
Wed May 23, 2012 12:59am EDT
(Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday moved to seize millions of dollars' worth of real estate in Texas that a former governor of a Mexican state is accused of buying with payments from drug cartels and from criminal extortion and bribery schemes.
Tomas Yarrington, the former governor of Tamaulipas, Mexico, was not charged criminally but two civil lawsuits were brought against him in U.S. federal court. He is accused of "using his illicit income from his political years to become a major real estate investor" in the United States and launder millions of dollars in proceeds from drug trafficking activities.
One of the properties was a condo in the resort community of South Padre Island, at the southern tip of Texas, and the other was a larger site in San Antonio, prosecutors said.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/23/us-usa-crime-texas-idUSBRE84M07L20120523
