At least $7 million in cash was found in the vehicles of 18 people pretending to be news crews from Mexico’s Televisa television covering a drug trial in Managua linked to the 2011 killing of folk singer Facundo Cabral, Nicaraguan police said Friday.
The money was tucked away in six vans painted with the Televisa logo, police chief Aminta Granera told a press conference here.
The vans were seized Monday at checkpoint on Nicaragua’s border with Honduras border and later brought to police headquarters in Managua.
One of the 18 people arrested appears to be a municipal police officer from the Mexican city of Durango, Granera said.
The trial of members of an alleged international drug ring got under way on Wednesday.
Nicaraguan prosecutors say the accused smuggled Colombian drugs via Costa Rica to Guatemala, for ultimate delivery to traffickers in neighboring Mexico.
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