The former head of the fight against drugs in Mexico was sentenced on Wednesday by the American justice system to more than 38 years in prison for drug trafficking and corruption. He had helped the powerful Sinaloa Cartel for ten years in exchange for millions of dollars in bribes.
The 56-year-old former pastor, who was found guilty in February 2023 and jailed in New York, was sentenced to “460 months in prison and a two million dollar fine,” a prosecutor’s office said. Brooklyn federal prosecution.
He is the highest-ranking Mexican official tried by American justice, in the war against South and South American drug cartels that take advantage of the difficulty of local ministers to reach the North American market its floods. Several members of the Sinaloa cartel are currently in prison in the United States.
“The prison sentence imposed today on Genaro Garcia Luna is a measure of justice and law. He betrayed the public trust and the people he was sworn to protect. As a result more than a million kilograms of deadly drugs have been brought into our country as well as violence here and in Mexico,” he insulted the federal prosecutor.
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“After years of drug trafficking and fraud, Garcia Luna will spend nearly 40 years where he belongs: in a federal prison,” the judge said, one of the most important prosecutors in the United States in relation to the ban. international drug trade.
In February 2023, a popular jury of the Brooklyn court decided that this former minister of Mexican President Felipe Calderon (2006-2012) was guilty of five counts, including that he received millions of dollars to protect the Sinaloa cartel and to be directly involved in the trade of tens of tons of cocaine from Mexico to the United States from 2001 to 2012.
Before becoming minister, Genaro Garcia Luna, a mechanical engineer by trade, was a police officer from 2001 to 2005 and head of the intelligence agency against corruption and organized crime.
Sinaloa cartel co-founder Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, 76, who was arrested in July in a dramatic fashion in the southern United States after a private flight from Mexico, has pleaded not guilty ” in September before the new Hebrew justice system.
His former partner, drug trafficker Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman with whom he founded the powerful and murderous cartel, is serving a life sentence in a high-security American prison.
2024-10-17 02:12:00
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