HALISTER1: Mexico Ex-Governor Arrested on Money Laundering Charges: Reforma

Mexico Ex-Governor Arrested on Money Laundering Charges: Reforma

(Bloomberg) -- Former governor of the northern state of Tamaulipas Tomas Yarrington was arrested on Sunday in Florence, Italy by request of the Mexican attorney general’s office, daily newspaper Reforma reported.
  • Yarrington is accused in the U.S. of organized criminal activity and embezzlement in Tamaulipas
  • A court in Brownsville, Texas has accused Yarrington of receiving bribes from the Golf Cartel, allowing drug trafficking to the U.S., laundering money, fraud and lying to banks: report
  • NOTE: An international arrest warrant agains Yarrington was issued in 2012
  • Link to story in Spanish: https://goo.gl/C0O409

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