Mexican Drug Trafficker Aided By U.S. Agents To Infiltrate A Major Cocaine Supplier's Network

Harold Mauricio Poveda-Ortega, an accused Colombian drug trafficker, in custody in 2010. Reuters

U.S. Agents Aided Mexican Drug Trafficker to Infiltrate His Criminal Ring -- New York Times

WASHINGTON — American drug enforcement agents posing as money launderers secretly helped a powerful Mexican drug trafficker and his principal Colombian cocaine supplier move millions in drug proceeds around the world, as part of an effort to infiltrate and dismantle the criminal organizations wreaking havoc south of the border, according to newly obtained Mexican government documents.

The documents, part of an extradition order by the Mexican Foreign Ministry against the Colombian supplier, describe American counternarcotics agents, Mexican law enforcement officials and a Colombian informant working undercover together over several months in 2007. Together, they conducted numerous wire transfers of tens of thousands of dollars at a time, smuggled millions of dollars in bulk cash — and escorted at least one large shipment of cocaine from Ecuador to Dallas to Madrid.

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My Comment: Another "Fast and Furious" scandal? Makes you wonder who is doing what in the US Justice Department.