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U.S. PROSECUTORS DROP CHARGES AGAINST PHARMACIST ZHENLI YE GON, PAVING WAY FOR EXTRADITION TO MEXICO.

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US prosecutors, unable to make drug-trafficking charges stick against Mexican pharmacist Zhenli Ye Gon, have dropped the case and are preparing to extradite him to Mexico. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) had to give up its case against Ye Gon because of lack of evidence after one of its witnesses recanted and another refused to testify. Attorneys for Ye Gon said they would do everything in their power to prevent extradition to Mexico, where he would face similar charges as those levied in the US. Ye Gon, a Chinese national who became naturalized as a Mexican citizen in 2003, is accused of using his pharmaceutical company Unimed to import massive amounts of chemicals used in the manufacture of methamphetamine in Mexico. Most of those drugs were allegedly smuggled into the US.

In early 2007, Mexican authorities conducted a high-profile raid of Ye Gon's home in Mexico City, where they...

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