Mexico

Cash collections, distribution organizations and undercover stings. Mexico appears in these cases as the market where cocaine proceeds were gathered for return to suppliers, and as the setting for alleged contacts between brokers and cartels.

Ayman Joumaa’s Business Between the Cartels

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Ayman Joumaa was designated by the US Treasury in 2011 and indicted the same year on charges of coordinating cocaine shipments for Mexico’s Los Zetas and laundering the proceeds. This article follows the designation, the indictment and the Lebanese Canadian Bank case built around West African car lots, and separates what officials alleged about Hezbollah from what any court found.