Woman found with US$205 million in house ordered to stand trial

http://www.570news.com/news/international/article.jsp?content=w0521103A

(((I've been patiently waiting to see some kind of movement in the justice system over this Zhenli Ye Gon case. The guy claims that he's not a dope pusher, but that the huge sums of cash stuffed into his house belonged to the Mexican government. Now the Mexicans are claiming they're gonna try his wife and his henchman in a separate trial, apparently. Huh? What is the sense in this?)))

(((Also, what are they charging her with? "Using illicit funds?" Just being in the neighborhood of 200 million dollars?
I don't think she was "using" that Arabian Nights sum; it was walled up in her house....)))

Link: 570News - Woman found with US$205 million in house ordered to stand trial in Mexico.

Woman found with US$205 million in house ordered to stand trial in Mexico

May 21, 2008 - 21:30

By: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MEXICO CITY - A judge has ordered a woman to stand trial on charges of using illicit funds after authorities seized $205 million US in alleged drug money from her Mexico City mansion in 2007.

Prosecutors said Wednesday that the judge ruled evidence warranted a trial of Tomoiyi Marx Yu, the wife of Chinese-born businessman Zhenli Ye Gon. Ye Gon is being held in the United States pending trial on drug charges.

Prosecutors say Ye Gon allegedly built the fortune by dealing in pseudoephedrine, the precursor chemical for methamphetamines. His wife has said she did not know about the money, which was found hidden in a sealed-off room.

An associate of Ye Gon, Ye Yong Qing, was also ordered to stand trial on the same charges.