Former deputy defence minister and a senior army general are being questioned over suspected links to organised crime Investigators are questioning Mexico’s former deputy defence minister and a top army general for suspected links to organised crime, in the highest level scandal to hit the military in the five-year-old drug war. Mexican soldiers on Tuesday detained retired general Tomás Angeles Dauahare and general Roberto Dawe González and turned them over to the country’s organised crime unit, military and government officials said. Angeles Dauahare was number 2 in the armed forces under President Felipe Calderón and helped lead the government’s crackdown on drug cartels after soldiers were deployed to the streets in late 2006

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