Check Out Zhenli's $206 Million Fat Stack [Well-Played]
Dammmm. A California King of cash. You go, Zhenli.
TDR’s man of the hour award goes to Chinese-born Mexican pharmaceuticals magnate Zhenli Ye Gon. Mexican authorities said they found $206 million at the mogul’s Mexico City residence in March 2007, allegedly his profits from illicit activities like the trafficking in meth precursor.
Los Gringos nabbed him, but last week U.S. Justice Department lawyers asked a federal judge to let Gon go, citing “evidentiary concerns” like key witnesses withdrawing statements or being unwilling to provide testimony. Well played, Gon.
What does Zhenli have to say about his rather large home emergency cushion?‘Why, it’s for El Presidente.’
“Gon maintains that $150 million of the money was part of a slush fund belonging to … the organization of incumbent President Felipe Calderon and his predecessor, Vicente Fox. ... Gon says, unnamed individuals came to his office and forced him to accept suitcases stuffed with cash for safekeeping. Gon’s accusations have been repeatedly rejected by Calderon … Attorneys for Gon have claimed to be in possession of audio- and videotapes implicating Mexican politicos in illicit activities.”
Look at this guy. He’s lucky Batman doesn’t just ‘extradite’ him from a 46th-story window.
No word on what happens to the cash bed.
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