Eduardo Luenga Creel (L) chief defense lawyer for Raul Salinas, ex-President Carlos Salinas' brother, speaks October 20 at a press conference, flanked by money laundering charges defense lawyer Raul F. Cardenas. The lawyers responded to accusations by the Swiss Attorney General that Raul Salinas, who is in jail, collected hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes from Colombian cocaine cartels to protect their shipments through Mexico. The lawyers claim that any of Raul Salinas' money in Swiss accounts comes from legitimate sources and that he was never involved in drugs trafficking, contrary to the testimony of dozens of witnesses cited in the Swiss report.

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