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EL PASO, (AP) — An American
sinessman imprisoned in Mexi-
for eight months last year is su-
; the American Red Cross for
1.2 million, saying the agency
s responsible for landing him in
son and did nothing to get him
. . Gilbert Andrews, 50, an El Paso
: | l : sinlssman who once sold med-
i- O’lakai, (equipment was released from
' ; dazatlan prison in December
" "y er fraud charges against him
)homore biolog re dropped
lim 011 P a 8 er j Mitchell Moss, chairman of the
. i nu j p aso chapter, referred questions
! ll,lk ' 1 "■ hetroup’s lawyers and said in a
1 to see where; t em( .nt: “Based on my personal
Drts over the past six months to
) my triendsg ,ist|the release of Mr. Andrews
the time when ^ (^g, Mazatlan prison, I am dis-
ike up, the pa& p 0 j ntec i that he has named the lo-
chapter of the American Red
)ss in his lawsuit.”
The lawsuit evolved from a
50,OOO deal between Andrews
i the Mazatlan chapter of the
tales
Mexican Red Cross.
In his suit, Andrews accuses
the Mexican Red Cross of con
spiring with the American Red
Cross to avoid about $40,000 in
import tariffs. To do so, Andrews
contends, the El Paso Red Cross
indicated in a letter that it was do
nating the $130,000 worth of
medical equipment.
As a result, Andrews was ac
cused of embezzling $130,000 from
the Mexican Red Cross, said
Christopher Antcliff, Andrews’
lawyer.
“They said he took that money
and did not give them anything in
return,” Antcliff said. “Their (the
American Red Cross) actions
caused him to spend 242 days in
a Third World prison.”
Officials with the Mazatlan Red
Cross, meanwhile, have said they
filed a criminal fraud charge
against Andrews because much of
the equipment was broken and
useless when it arrived in the
coastal resort city.
Andrews blames the Mexican
Red Cross employees who picked
up the equipment in El Paso for
failing to pack it properly.
Andrews was arrested April 15 in
Ciudad Juarez, across the border
from El Paso, and held without bond
until December, when a Mexican
federal panel of judges dismissed the
charges for lack of evidence.
Andrews contends in the law
suit that Elizabeth Dole and other
Red Cross officers were told that
he was being wrongfully held but
failed to end his imprisonment.
“The conduct of Elizabeth Dole
and other senior officials of the Amer
ican Red Cross in failing to end his in
carceration was unconscionable and
egregious” the lawsuit states.
Andrews also contends he lived
in squalor in the Mexican prison
and that his life was threatened by
other inmates.
“I wouldn’t have been there for
eight months if the Red Cross had
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