US Witness Implicates Former Mexican President's Ex-Wife in Money Laundering Case Michel Marizco - Fronteras Desk
go to original October 23, 2013

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The ex-wife of former Mexican President Vicente Fox was implicated in a money laundering scheme in U.S. District Court in El Paso on Monday.

The high-profile case charges a prominent West Texas philanthropist with conspiring to launder money for a Mexican drug cartel.  A witness for the prosecution told the court that Lilián de la Concha worked as a consiglierie or advisor to the defunct Milenio Cartel, a Colima offshoot of the Sinaloa Cartel. That witness, Victor Pimentel, was arrested in 2007 with $1 million cash.

Prosecutors say Pimentel was working at the time for the man on trial, an El Paso lawyer and philanthropist, Marco Antonio Delgado. Pimentel testified for prosecutors against Delgado and told the court that the lawyer negotiated a $600 million money laundering scheme for the Milenio Cartel from the U.S. into Mexico. The money Pimentel was caught with in Atlanta was just a trial run.

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