JEANNE MESERVE, CNN ANCHOR: Some of the world's top drug lords and companies linked to them may soon see their assets frozen in the United States. CNN Justice correspondent Pierre Thomas is here. Pierre, who's on this list?</s>PIERRE THOMAS, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT: Jeanne, this list involves drug kingpins, some of the people capable of moving tons of cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroin. Now they have identified 12 people, the U.S. has identified 12 people on this list. They are from Mexico -- six from Mexico, two from Burma, and also two from Nigeria. Now again, this shows the growing influence of the Mexicans in the U.S. drug trade. They now surpass the Colombians in their power abroad. Among the people that we are seeing using these drugs -- trafficking these drugs is a man by the name of Ramon Arellano Felix. He is a master drug dealer. The FBI has him on the FBI 10 most-wanted list. Now this was program was patterned after a program that began five years ago centering on the Colombians. In that program, they identified seven major drug lords and identified 526 major companies. The game plan is to isolate their assets and also to ban any U.S. companies from dealing with these particular companies. Go, isolate and circumvent these companies from doing business in the</s>U.S. MESERVE: Pierre Thomas, Justice correspondent, thank you.
U.S. Announces Plans to Seize Assets of International Drug Kingpins