18 January 2013

MEXICO / NICARAGUA / CHINA : Fake TV Crew Get 30 Years In Jail For Money Laundering; Beijing Expo Center In Cancun Angers Merchants.


    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-21083168
        18 Mexicans...who entered Nicaragua in August...posing as TV journalists with the Mexican TV network Televisa...were sentenced to 30 years...for smuggling $9.2 million in cash hidden in their 6 vans.
     A Managua judge found them guilty of money laundering...and gave the 17 men and one woman the maximum prison sentence allowed.
    AND: A proposed $180 million Chinese expo center near Cancun outrages Mexican industrialists...and media. 
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324595704578243880802729850.html?mod=googlenews_wsj