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Ismael "El Mayo"  Zambada (left), cofounder of the Sinaloa Cartel and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, a son of the cartel's other co-founder, were arrested in Texas this week in a dramatic achievement for U.S. law enforcement that could usher in a seismic shift to Mexico's criminal landscape.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 27, 2024
Captured alleged Mexican drug kingpin pleads not guilty to U.S. charges
The arrests were seen as a dramatic achievement for U.S. law enforcement that could usher in a seismic shift to Mexico's criminal landscape.
A member of the Sinaloa Cartel shows capsules with methamphetamine in a safe house in Culiacan, Mexico, in 2022.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 19, 2024
Chinese 'underground bankers' launder Sinaloa drug money
24 defendants have been charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and methamphetamine and money laundering offenses.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 21, 2019
Showered in blaze of bullets, upscale Mexican neighborhood in shock after cartel assault
The trendy bars and restaurants along the main strip of the Mexican city overwhelmed late last week by an army of cartel gunmen slowly began their recovery over the weekend even as many traumatized residents still shied away.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jan 10, 2019
'El Chapo' jurors see intimate texts caught by drug lord's spyware
Prosecutors in the U.S. trial of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman on Wednesday shared with jurors text messages they said the accused Mexican drug lord sent to his wife and apparent mistress in which he discussed narrowly escaping from a raid and joked about arming his 18-month-old daughter with an assault...
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 13, 2016
EU slaps €166 million fine on Sony, Sanyo, Panasonic battery units over price cartel
The European Commission said Monday it has fined Sony Corp., Panasonic Corp. and Sanyo Electric Co. a total of €166 million ($176 million) for collusion on the pricing of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries.
BUSINESS
Oct 22, 2015
EU slaps DVD drive-makers with €116 fine
Brussels
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Sep 18, 2015
Alleged mastermind behind massacre of 43 Mexicans nabbed but mystery continues
Mexico has caught one of the supposed masterminds behind the apparent massacre of 43 student teachers last year, a police source said on Thursday, potentially raising hopes more will come to light in an incident still shrouded in mystery.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 8, 2015
The murder ballads of Mexico's brutal drug war
A group of Mexican folk musicians take the stage, guitars in hand and tuba at the back. Based on the gaudy outfits they're dressed in — a mix of mariachi style with Vegas-era Elvis — you might think you know how they're going to sound. Then you notice one of the musicians is holding a bazooka, and...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2013
Japanese units shell out for rigging U.S. auto parts prices
A consortium of Japanese companies used code names and secret meetings to rig bids for dozens of types of auto parts imported to the United States in a decade-long conspiracy that may have cost U.S. consumers hundreds of millions of dollars, U.S. officials announced.
BUSINESS
Jul 11, 2013
Yazaki, Furukawa hit over EU cartel
Yazaki Corp., the world's biggest maker of automotive wire harnesses, Leoni AG, and Furukawa Electric Co. were fined a total of €141 million ($180 million) in a European Union probe of price-fixing cartels.

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