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InSight Crime reports that a criminal group aligned with Mexico’s La Unión Tepito Cartel, known as the “Marco Polos,” has been making trips to China since 2010 — sourcing fake clothing, jewellery and more for re-sale in Mexico. But in the pandemic, the Marco Polos can’t make China trips. This means the local sellers, since late January, have had little or no product to sell, and are begging the cartel for an ease-up in the normal extortion demands. They can’t keep giving the cartel people a slice of a trade that no longer exists, they say.
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Ramirez’ name popping up in the investigation into Memo Fantasma surprised even the director of transnational crime website InSight Crime, Jeremy McDermott, who has known the VP for years.
Ramirez told InSight Crime she had asked former National Police Chief Oscar Naranjo to do a background check on the narco / businessman before agreeing to business.
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