Genaro Garcia Luna was Mexico’s top security official 15 years ago, tasked with fighting drug cartels. At 54, he is appearing from Tuesday, January 17 in federal court in Brooklyn (New York) for cocaine trafficking. The trial of Genaro Garcia Luna should bring to light the relationship between drug traffickers and the Mexican government, under the presidency of Felipe Calderon (2006-2012), but also the cross-border traffic that supplies the United States from South America. South via Mexico.
The fall of Genaro Garcia Luna occurred in 2019, during the trial of Joaquin Guzman, known as “El Chapo”, boss of the Sinaloa cartel, the largest in Mexico, sentenced to life imprisonment in the United States. A repentant narco had explained how he had paid suitcases of tickets to the former security minister, leading to his arrest a few months later, in December 2019, in Dallas (Texas).
“In exchange for paying bribes, the Sinaloa Cartel obtained safe passage for its drug shipments, sensitive law enforcement information regarding cartel investigations, and information about drug cartels. drug rivals’accused the US Department of Justice, the day after his arrest in Dallas, in December 2019. According to US justice, “twice the cartel personally paid bribes to Garcia Luna in briefcases containing between 3 and 5 million dollars”.
The former police officer, who had settled in Florida in 2012, had, she continues, “amassed millions of dollars in personal wealth”. To prosecute him in the United States, the American prosecution uses the leader of cross-border drug trafficking and accuses him of lying during his application for naturalization in 2018: “He allegedly lied about his past criminal acts on behalf of the Sinaloa Cartel. »
Mr. Garcia Luna pleaded not guilty, believing that he was the victim of the revenge of repentant narcos and unfounded accusations. He faces, if found guilty, between ten years in prison and life imprisonment. “Today’s arrest demonstrates our determination to bring to justice those who help the cartels inflict devastating damage on the United States and Mexico, regardless of the positions they held while committing their crimes,” Brooklyn federal prosecutor Richard P. Donoghue said.
A “mediocre” policeman who does the “dirty work”
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