Rumors and counter-rumors over the whereabouts of Matamoros businessman and financier Sergio Arguelles continue to swirl placing him in house arrest in Mexico City or hospitalized and recovering from a bout of pneumonia there.
But at least three sources close to the Mexican government have said that the American consulate in Mexico City had seized his visa to do business in the United States and that the Mexican government had arrested him at the Mexico City airport upon his return from a visit to one of his daughters who lives in Europe.
Relatives of Arguelles have reached us anonymously to say that these reports are untrue and that he would return to the border to disprove them sometime this week. So far, there have been no Arguelles sightings and his business associates will neither confirm nor deny his presence or the reports of his troubles with the government.
A relative of the Arguelles family asserted that not only Arguelles, but that Yarrington had cleared themselves with the Mexican government. Given the fact that the former governor was named in a lengthy indictment outlining his alleged receipt of kickbacks from drug cartels to do business in Tamaulipas and the seizure of millions in currency and real-estate holdings in Texas, those claims seem a bit f-fetched.
We'll keep our ear to the ground and our eyes in the field peeled for any Arguelles sightings.
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The problem is that he hasn't' paid "La Cuota" to the usual suspects; Uncle Rico is awaiting on the U.S. Side.
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