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Mexican national indicted for US Ex-Im fraud

24 February 2010

A Mexican national has been indicted and arrested in connection with an alleged scheme to defraud US Ex-Im.

Read more: [US Ex-Im fraud] [US Ex-Im defraud scheme]

The office of inspector general of the US Export-Import Bank (US Ex-Im) has announced that Oswaldo Kuchle-Lopez, of Mexico, was indicted 10 February by a federal grand jury in El Paso, Texas, in connection with an alleged scheme to defraud US Ex-Im.

Kuchle-Lopez was detained by customs and border protection officers on 17 February at the Paso Del Norte Port of...


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