Mexicans aided laundering, say U.S. officials
Fourteen Tijuana companies and 15 Mexicans helped launder drug profits for the Arellano-Félix cartel, U.S. officials said yesterday as they froze their assets north of the border and blocked them from access to banks and other financial institutions in the United States. Leading the money laundering cell, Treasury Department officials said, was Lorenzo Arce Flores, a Tijuana businessman. Full Story