The federal judge Lewis Kaplan sentenced Vikram Datta businessman, to 19 years and seven months in prison for laundering $ 25 million for the Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico. US Condemns businessman linked to the Sinaloa cartel 19 years in prison According to a report aired on CBS television, the 51 years old employer managed to become one of the most successful retailers of perfumes in the city of Laredo, Texas, because of his ties to the Sinaloa cartel. The judge said the sentence was intended to serve as a message to employers that operate on the border with Mexico to avoid doing business with organized crime. “If a blind eye to the source of cash from Mexico is very likely to be very dirty accepting money from drug trafficking and supporting the operations of the brutal drug cartels,” Kaplan emphasized at sentencing.
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