http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhenli_Ye_Gon
*Looks like there's no evidence and no witnesses. I mean, no evidence beyond
the stark fact that the guy's entire mansion was literally stuffed with cash.
"The fortune, found by the police on March 15, 2007 at his residence at Lomas de Chapultepec in Mexico City included the following:
207 million U.S. dollars
18 million Mexican pesos
200,000 euros
113,000 Hong Kong dollars
11 centenarios (Mexican gold bullion coins made of 1.20565 oz t (37.5 g) of pure gold[10])
A great amount of jewels, of unknown value"
*But that vast Gothic horde, enough to boggle the mind of a Tolkien dragon,
just kinda dropped out of the Mexican sky somehow... so I reckon they have to let him go. Finally.
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=337861&CategoryId=14091
"U.S. Drops Drug Charges Against Chinese-Mexican Mogul
"WASHINGTON – The U.S. Justice Department asked a federal judge to drop the drug trafficking charges against Chinese-born Mexican pharmaceuticals importer Zhenli Ye Gon.
"The request, which would open the door for Gon’s extradition to Mexico, was filed after prosecutors encountered “evidentiary concerns.” (((Took 'em a couple of years to realize there was no evidence. Pray this doesn't happen to you.)))
"The Justice Department told the judge that Gon should be tried in Mexico because the case “is of considerable public interest and is important to Mexico’s counter-narcotics policy.”
In the documents, it states that one of the key witnesses in the case had withdrawn his statements and that another had been unwilling to provide testimony.
Gon, now 46, was arrested in July 2007 by U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents at a restaurant in suburban Washington (((as good a locale as any, I guess))) and a federal grand jury formally accused him of “conspiracy to aid and abet the manufacture of 500 grams (((
