Agents Accuse Customs Officials of Blocking Investigations

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http://www.narconews.com/Issue32/article896.html


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By all appearances, a major money-laundering snake had been snared. But appearances may have been the very concern that led to Operation Casablanca being cut off at the knees.

According to Gately, the undercover operation suffered an early death. The operation was shut down in 1998, he told the media, after evidence surfaced that implicated high-level Mexican military officials in the drug trade—including Mexico’s Secretary of Defense at the time, General Enrique Cervantes.

If Operation Casablanca was digging up information on entangling alliances between the Mexican government and drug traffickers, it would not be the first time. It also would not be the first time that the U.S. government failed to aggressively pursue such alleged corruption.

According to Charles A. Intriago, publisher of the Miami-based Money Laundering Alert and a former federal prosecutor in Miami, the U.S. government also dropped the ball in a high-profile case involving a former Mexican deputy attorney general, Mario Ruiz Massieu.



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