Matthew Cox
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That's Nacho.
I always thought he would be older.
Nacho Cordonel formed a business relationship with Armando Valencia, where the two of them took the production of synthetics to what was essentially an industrial scale.
Well, the purchase of the precursors...
was done through, of course, the Chinese.
This individual, Zhen Li, was a Chinese businessman operating in Mexico.
Now, he achieved legendary status because it was the investigation targeting this individual who resulted in the seizure of over $200 million in cash from his house.
There's the guy's house right here.
Here's the room full of money.
That's one operation.
So now this individual has got $200 million in cash sitting in Mexico.
He's got to get that back.
To China.
Right.
Well, there is no Beijing network that could handle that kind of volume.
I mean, that's just an outrageous amount of money.
That's not the only individual.
There's a number of these guys that were the brokers.
Remember the guy in prison that was talking about how they were buying so many containers that they were hiding it in the Chinese rugs?
Well, these are the kind of individuals they were buying that from.