Security & Strategic Review - December 2011 (ISSN 1741-4202)

MEXICO-US | DEA in ‘controlled’ money laundering. Since President Felipe Calderón took office in December 2006, US government agents, ‘primarily with the Drug Enforcement Administration [DEA]’ have returned to conducting ‘controlled’ money-laundering operations in Mexico, suspended since 1998 when it was discovered that customs agents had engaged in one such scheme without informing the Mexican authorities. This was revealed in a report published by the New York Times (NYT) on 2 December, based on information obtained from ‘current and former federal law enforcement operations’.

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