Free Response in Opposition to Motion - District Court of Arizona - Arizona

MEW:MDR:RO:am 192-11529 Department of Justice the USA. Division of the Penal thing
Service of International Matters Washington, D, C. 20530

The Central Authority of the Mexican United States This is a request of information and detention with purposes of investigation, against ALBERTO ABED SCHEKAIBAN, who is related to his conational JAIME EDUARDO ROSS CASTILLO in the buy of three aircrafts through the money laundry, considering the coordinated investigations realized by our countries and that in the recent days has been detected on the part of the Secret Service of the Department of Security of the United States of America, the presence of Abed, in the city of Mexico.
On the individual, this authority has the knowledge and there are grateful for your collaboration with the provisional secure of the aircrafts CESSNA CARAVAN and the helicopter Agusta, which were acquired, with the product of the fraud committed to lnverlal Bank and his clients. Both aircrafts are in possession of Servicios Integrales de Aviación (SIASA) and there is had the knowledge, true of that SIASA is a property of ALBERTO ABED SCHEKA.IBAN, who together with JAIME ROSS, they created the relation between Bombardier Capital, lnc. (BC!), Wilmington Trust Company (WTC), Uptongrove Ltd., CASAFIN, CALEZAR, LTD, VUELABUS, S.A. OF C.V. and other Mexican companies, to conceal the origin of the funds used in the acquisition of the said aircraft. To the date, we know that JAIME ROSS is arrested in this country, soon his judgment will be ended up and condemned for the crimes of money laundry and very probably being linked in the Criminal Organization of Alberto Abed, of whom to the date, it has credited the constitutive conducts of " wash of assets " (money laundry), nevertheless, in order to give pursuit to the resources and objects fond of the present investigations, and based on the beginning of international reciprocity in the exchange of information to anticipate and to fight conducts relative to the money laundry, I afford to request to your cooperation so that provide us, the following thing: Information related to the provisional secure of the aircrafts before described. Documents related to bank accounts that in this case there find related to JAIME EDUARDO ROSS CASTILLO, ALBERTO ABED SCHEKAIBAN, and other persons who are investigated. Formal accusation against JAIME EDUARDO ROSS CASTILLO and ALBERTO ABED SCHEKAIBAN, for the charges of " Wash of assets " (money laudrey). - Witnesses' affidavits that involve the mentioned ones. - Orders of arrest that in this case there exist against JAIME EDUARDO ROSS CASTILLO, ALBERTO ABED SCBEKAIBAN and others involved. Confessions of guilt , as well as, any other accusation or judicial order that is related to the persons who are investigated in that country. The temporary detention and presentation of ALBERTO ABED SHEKAIBAN, who has his date of birth on April 27, 1952 in Lebanon The Central Authority of the United States is grateful to the Central Mexican Authority for the prompt response to this request. On February 6, 2006. Date Attentively

Case 2:04-cv-00363-JWS

Document 157-4

Filed 03/08/2006

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Case 2:04-cv-00363-JWS

Document 157-4

Filed 03/08/2006

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