What to do with $207 million in cash?

Back in March, Mexican authorities hauled in the world’s largest drug cash seizure from the mansion of a suspected drug dealer in Mexico.

In case your wondering what 205.6 Million in U.S. Dollars and 200,000 in Euros and Pesos looks like, here it is.

Mexico Drug Cash Seizure

At the end of July, U.S. officials arrest the man responsible for all this money. Chinese born Mexican naturalized citizen Zhenli Ye Gon was arrested in Washington D.C. by U.S. federal agents. According to the Washington Post, Ye Gon was living the life that a suspected multimillionaire drug kingpin would live.

This is a man who owned a fleet of luxury cars and had mistresses in several countries, according to Mexican officials. In recent years, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said, he gambled away nearly $126 million in Las Vegas casinos.

According to the Mexican Attorney General, the $207 million has now become the property of the government of Mexico.

The cash, found by police in March at a suspected methamphetamine kingpin’s Mexico City mansion, was not claimed within a 90-day legal limit and now belongs to the government, Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora said.

The money will be used to help Mexico deal with its ever growing drug problem.

The money will be used to pay for rehabilitation programs for drug addicts and to modernize police buildings and bolster Mexico’s judiciary, which often struggles to bring powerful drug dealers to trial.

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