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MEXICO CITY — Federal prosecutors in Mexico on Wednesday formally charged the former mayor of Tijuana, one of the country’s wealthiest men, with illegal possession of a large cache of weapons and ammunition.
The decision to prosecute Jorge Hank Rhon, a gambling tycoon and a major figure in the opposition party in Mexico, has sparked a political squall as members of his Institutional Revolutionary Party denounce the arrest as election-season mischief orchestrated by the ruling party of President Felipe Calderon.
Hank’s family members and lawyers say the weapons belong to his security detail, which protects his family and his extensive holdings, and that he has nothing to do with the arsenal.
