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Article: Jail threats color Mexican disputes; Tactics in coverage fights include arrests.(News)
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- May 12, 2008
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Byline: ROBERTO CENICEROS
MEXICO CITY-The recent jailing of an American International Group Inc. executive in Mexico City follows a strategy that plaintiffs apply regularly in Mexico to pressure defendants into settling civil lawsuits, attorneys said.
The case also provides an example of a new threat that directors and officers for large corporations face in Mexico, a broker said.
Mexican law allows civil litigants to level criminal allegations, such as fraud, which a prosecutor can then use to bring criminal charges against a defendant involved in a civil lawsuit.
But the strategy rarely results in the jailing of a top corporate ...