Mexico will request the extradition of García Luna

The Mexican government announced yesterday that it is proceeding to request the extradition of Genaro García Luna and his wife, Linda Cristina Pereyra, after the former Secretary of Public Security was sentenced to 38 years in prison in the United States.

President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo announced that there are at least three arrest warrants for the former official sentenced for drug trafficking here. There are legal issues, complaints, against the criminal García Luna in Mexicohe stated in his press conference at the National Palace, and added that Felipe Calderón yes I knew of his former right-hand man’s ties to crime, even before inviting him to his government.

The Secretary of the Interior, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, and the head of the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF), Pablo Gómez, pointed out that these are investigations that are in force for crimes committed in Mexico, which have no connection with the trial carried out. in New York against the former senior official and that are related to the operation fast and furiouswith contracts awarded directly to private companies for the construction of federal prisons that resulted in damage to the treasury and with a money laundering scheme in which the Mexican treasury was defrauded of more than 625 million dollars, a case in which In addition to García Luna, there are 60 defendants with arrest warrants, some in prison and others fugitives in the United States.

What proceeds? Request the extradition of everyone who is in the United States, starting with García Luna and his wifesaid Gómez, who explained that this would prevent the eventual release of the convicted person from evading Mexican justice.

Let’s see about the wife’s extraditionSheinbaum stated, adding that he requested a report from the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) on how many investigation files he has open against García Luna and whether there are additional arrest warrants to those registered by his government.

Rodríguez stated that García Luna was convicted in the United States because helped the Sinaloa cartel in exchange for millionaire bribes. He reviewed the career of the former official and pointed out that the FGR has verified that he was sent by the Center for Investigation and National Security (Cisen) in 1994 to rescue and cover up José Antonio Sánchez Ortega, an agent of the same organization accused of being the second shooter in the murder of Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta.

Regarding the case of the money laundering network, Pablo Gómez recalled that it is an investigation carried out in Mexico and for which arrest warrants were issued against 61 defendants, including García Luna and his wife – whom in 2019 The UIF froze his access to the financial system and his bank accounts, measures reversed by court order, in addition to the fact that the Mexican government filed litigation in the United States to recover the resources triangulated to that country.

He detailed that García Luna, through a network of companies operated by Grupo Weinberg, Mauricio Samuel Weinberg López and Jonatan Alexis Weinberg Pinto, obtained contracts between 2009 and 2018 for a total of 727 million 923 thousand 523 dollars and 528 million 26 thousand 666 pesos with institutions such as the Federal Police, Cisen and the Decentralized Administrative Body for Prevention and Social Readaptation, which paid 625 million 188 thousand dollars and 93 million 866 thousand pesos directly to accounts in Mexico, Barbados and Israel.

Part of the resources were returned by the network to accounts in Mexico through companies screens and others were sent to the United States, where apartments and other goods were purchased. It is an international money laundering network that complements the network of fraud against the Mexican State.Gómez concluded.