Enrique Molina Sobrino became very wealthy by creating the biggest Pepsi

Pepsi

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 bottling group in Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

, named Gemex. He also created an empire in the production of sugar. In 2002 he sold Pepsi Group in Mexico to The Pepsi Bottling Group

The Pepsi Bottling Group

The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. was the world's largest bottler of Pepsi-Cola beverages. PBG sales of Pepsi-Cola beverages accounted for more than one-half of the Pepsi-Cola beverages sold in the United States and Canada and about 40 percent worldwide...

, the largest Pepsi bottler in the world partially owned by Pepsi

Pepsi

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, for 1.5 billion dollars. But in 2003 Francisco Gil the Mexican Secretary of Treasury sued him for fraud: allegedly Molina faked sugar exports to cash government subsides aimed at promoting sugar exports, this made him escape to Scottsdale, Arizona

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 where he currently lives.

Molina also was part owner of Grupo Financiero Banamex when it was privatized by the Salinas administration. Banamex is now owned by Citibank

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.