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Ex-Mexican official accused of taking drug payoff
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Contributed by World News
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MEXICO CITY - Authorities arrested the former head of an elite organized crime strike force on charges that he took a $450,000 payoff from a drug gang, part of a widening corruption scandal involving dozens of federal agents. The arrest of Noe Ramirez, a former deputy attorney general, follows those of four other senior agents in the past three weeks as well as the forced resignations of at least 30 other officers. Among those arrested were the current and former directors of the Mexican office of Interpol, the international police organization. Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora said at a news conference Friday that the arrests are part of an ongoing purge of federal agents corrupted by...
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