In the 1990s, Mexico became the scene of a gigantic cocaine trafficking. To reinject the wads of money amassed by drug cartels into the legal economy, dirty money must be laundered, with the blessing of the country's political representatives. Mexico is then governed by the Institutional Revolutionary Party or PRI, corruption is everywhere and two names are imposed, those of two brothers: Carlos and Raul Salinas, "the Kennedys of Mexico". Carlos Salinas becomes President of Mexico. He was 40 years old when he was elected head of the country. To his voters he promised a "new political culture". But behind the scenes, from the beginning, he turns a blind eye to drug trafficking and the violence that goes with it. And the more years pass, the more blood will flow... Soon, suspicious sums arrived on dozens of Swiss accounts. Raul Salinas, and his wife Paulina Castañon, will soon be caught red-handed. The scene takes place in Geneva, in the offices of the Pictet & Cie bank... To investigate the dirty money of the "Kennedys of Mexico", journalists Marie Maurisse and François Pilet went to question former Swiss magistrates Bernard Bertossa and Carla del Ponte. The podcast "Dangerous millions" tells you how Switzerland became the washing machine for scammers from all over the world. Welcome to the hushed world of financial crime. Who, in this episode, takes us into the sulphurous world of drug cartels, in Mexico. "Dangerous Millions", a podcast co-produced by the public media swissinfo, the online news service of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation and Europe 1 Studio, with Gotham City.

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Highlights: In the 1990s, Mexico became the scene of a gigantic cocaine trafficking. To reinject the wads of money amassed by drug cartels into the legal economy, dirty money must be laundered, with the blessing of the country's political representatives. Mexico is then governed by the Institutional Revolutionary Party or PRI, corruption is everywhere and two names are imposed, those of two brothers: Carlos and Raul Salinas, "the Kennedy of Mexico". Carlos Salinas becomes President of Mexico. But behind the scenes, from the beginning, he turns a blind eye to drug trafficking and the violence that goes with it.

In the 1990s, Mexico became the scene of a gigantic cocaine trafficking. To reinject the wads of money amassed by drug cartels into the legal economy, dirty money must be laundered, with the blessing of the country's political representatives. Mexico is then governed by the Institutional Revolutionary Party or PRI, corruption is everywhere and two names are imposed, those of two brothers: Carlos and Raul Salinas, "the Kennedy of Mexico". Carlos Salinas becomes President of Mexico. He was 40 years old when he was elected head of the country. To his voters, he promised a "new political culture". But behind the scenes, from the beginning, he turns a blind eye to drug trafficking and the violence that goes with it. And the more years pass, the more blood will flow... Soon, suspicious sums arrived on dozens of Swiss accounts. Raul Salinas, and his wife Paulina Castañon, will soon be caught red-handed. The scene takes place in Geneva, in the offices of the Pictet & Cie... To investigate the dirty money of " Kennedy of Mexico", journalists Marie Maurisse and François Pilet went to question former Swiss magistrates Bernard Bertossa and Carla del Ponte.The podcast "Dangerous millions" tells you how Switzerland became the washing machine for scammers from all over the world. Welcome to the hushed world of financial crime. Who, in this episode, takes us into the sulphurous world of drug cartels, in Mexico."Dangerous Millions", a podcast co-produced by the public media swissinfo, the online news service of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation and Europe 1 Studio, with Gotham City.Tags: Mexico - Mexico - Palenque - Salinas de Gortari - Neil Docherty - École nationale des Ponts et Chaussées - soap opera - Champ-Dollon - Ian Hamel - Valentin Roschacher - Ascona - Italy - Carla Del Ponte CREDITS: Production and composition of original music: Julien Tharaud Management  SWI swissinfo.ch: Jo Fahy Direction Europe 1 Studio: Fannie Rascle Editorial Board: Susanne Reber Proofreading: Virginie Mangin Archives  SWI swissinfo.ch: Caroline Honegger Europe 1 Archives: Laetitia Casanova, Benoît Muckensturm and Sylvaine Denis Illustration: Kai Reusser Promotion  SWI swissinfo.ch: Xin Zhang and Carlo PisaniPromotion and Diffusion Europe 1 Studio: Kelly Decroix and Eloïse Bertil