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On July 23, 2007, U.S. law enforcement officials arrested Zhenli Ye Gon, a Mexico City businessman sought by the Mexican government in connection with one of the Western Hemisphere’s largest trafficking rings for psuedoephedrine, the main chemical ingredient in methamphetamine.1 According to an Associated Press report, Mexican prosecutors have charged Ye Gon with drug trafficking, money laundering, and weapons possession for his alleged role in illegally importing 19 tons of a pseudoephedrine compound used to make methamphetamine. Ye Gon denies the charges.2
1 Authorities Nab Alleged Mexico Drug Kingpin Zhenli Ye Gon in Maryland, Fox News, July 24, 2007.
2 Mark Stevenson and Michael Rubinkam, Associated Press Writers, Drug Suspect Accuses Mexican Official, July 2, 2007.