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This Thursday, a judge denied bail to Genaro García Luna, former Secretary of Public Security of the six-year term of Felipe Calderón, arguing that There is confusion about who will sign the warranty or not.
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García Luna’s legal defense will look for different people to sign their bond or they will make sure that those who initially agreed to sign it do so.
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García Luna César de Castro’s lawyer told the judge that no one in the Mexican government has come forward to help his client.
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“We’ve seen the opposite,” he said. “We’ve seen people distance themselves from him.”
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During the early morning, The United States Attorney’s Office disputed the arguments of the former Secretary of Public Security, Genaro García Luna, to face his trial in freedom by paying a bail of one million dollars.
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García Luna had asked to be released through that payment jointly signed by three other people. But prosecutors say two of those people do not want to sign the bond, while the third would be one of the former GGL employees whose income is not enough to cover the bond.
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Through a letter registered in the Court and disseminated by the journalist Alan Feurer in your Twitter account, The US government explained that there is a high risk of escape of the accused since “corrupt Mexican officials” could help him flee in order to avoid “public disclosure of these criminal acts at trial”, while they assured, They have found more evidence against him.
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The prosecutor of the Eastern District of New York, Richard Donoghue, argued that García Luna “He has the ability to escape and an outstanding incentive to do so” because he faces between five years and life imprisonment for the charges of which the authority accuses him (three for crimes related to drug trafficking and one for false statements).
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In the letter the Prosecutor explained that they found ghost companies, multi-million dollar investments and found additional witnesses to support the accusation that the man closest to former President Felipe Calderón took millions of dollars in bribes from the Sinaloa cartel.
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The Prosecutor’s Office said he’s worried about the ties of who’s called the “super policeman” with the Sinaloa cartel, “A sophisticated criminal organization well versed in techniques to disguise the movement of important illicit funds.”
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They said that in October 2012, García Luna used a company in Florida to acquire a house in Golden Beach for more than 3,000,000 dollars and paid in cash.
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In addition, prosecutors said some of Genaro García Luna’s assets came through a company in Panama.
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The Prosecutor’s Office said that although García Luna said she had “financial difficulties” so as not to be able to “cross the border with Mexico driving”, the government found that in recent years “it has acquired multiple real estate companies that, in total, are valued at almost 4 millions of dollars”.
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“The government investigation has revealed that over several years, the defendant has used several techniques to hide the true size of his financial companies, including screen companies and straw buyers who acquired assets for him,” he added.
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Prosecutor Richard Donoghue recalled that Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, former leader of the Sinaloa cartel who was sentenced to life imprisonment by the same court before which the former Mexican minister now faces, was a fugitive in Mexico for fifteen years and Rafael Caro Quintero, Another of his bosses is still there, although Justice has been looking for him to arrest him since 2013.
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