Mexicans are suspicious that, in the closing days of the presidential election, the ruling party will arrest drug cartel leaders to boost the campaign of Josefina Vazquez Mota.
The investigation is focusing, at least in part, on hard-line ruling party factions and suspected ties to drug cartels, an official close to the probe said.
Diego Fernández, a former presidential candidate who remains influential within the ruling National Action Party, was kidnapped in May and is now seen only in periodic ransom demands, thinner in each photograph.Even when the cartels are driven out of one place, they tend to pick up their operations elsewhere.
Take the European Commission's 2009 ruling against Intel for $1.4 billion (counting interest) or the $120 million fine it levied against JP Morgan and other banks for taking part in cartels in the financial sector.
"In the context of the merger cases last year," he said, "today's ruling shows that in cartels also, the commission must go about its business with a clear head".
Youth opposition to the emergence of royal dynasties in the Arab republics sprung not just from a distaste for the betrayal of republican political principles but from a conviction that such ruling families had become corrupt, nepotistic cartels.
The French competition regulator's ruling in the case of a detergent cartel shows that Europe's consumer-goods markets are surprisingly murky.
Gallardo established a modus operandi with the country's ruling Institutional Revolutionary party, a convivial relationship whereby his cartel delivered votes in return for a blind eye, and enjoyed control over substantial constituencies of the federal and state police forces.
The cartel office said it would study the ruling before deciding about any further steps.
In an unfortunate but unsurprising ruling, District Judge Richard J Sullivan sided (pdf) with the Copyright Cartel – specifically, Capitol Records in this case – against an innovative startup that was providing a marketplace for used songs.
