It's PAN's bread, Mexican drug suspect says

Remember that $205 million seized from a Mexico City home in March?

A lawyer for the Zhenli Ye Gon, the fugitive owner of the home, sent a letter to the Mexican Embassy in Washington saying the cash was illegal campaign funds for the ruling National Action Party, PAN, the Associated Press reports.

"This affirmation is not only false, it is ridiculous," the attorney general's office said in a statement responding to the letter.

Mexican officials believe Ye Gon was trafficking in pseudoephedrine, an ingredient in methamphetamine. They said the attorney was "looking for an arrangement that would benefit his client."

Posted by Geoffrey Mohan in Los Angeles