Nuevo Laredo, Tamps. Former PRI governor of Tamaulipas (1999 to 2004), Tomás Yarrington Ruvalcaba, was launched from the Thomson Penitentiary in Illinois, United States, on July 3, in response to information from the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP); nevertheless, this was scheduled to occur subsequent November.
In 2012, protected witnesses from the Drug Enforcement Company (DEA) accused Yarrington Ruvalcaba of receiving bribes from prison teams. Following these accusations, the politician left Mexico and headed to Europe.
In April 2017, the previous president, who traveled below a fictitious title and used false identification paperwork, was arrested in Italy accused of cash laundering and different crimes in america, a rustic to which he was extradited in 2018.
In March 2021, Tomás Yarrington admitted in court docket that he had obtained $3.5 million in bribes, which he used to fraudulently buy properties within the nation.
Bribes to the Gulf Cartel are documented
On the time, this motion was interpreted as an settlement to dismiss the costs of drug trafficking, extortion and financial institution fraud that have been additionally imputed to the previous state chief.
U.S. authorities documented that a few of these bribes have been linked to the Gulf Cartel, though this prison group was not talked about within the remaining doc of the Justice Division asserting his sentence.
On March 15, 2023, the previous governor of Tamaulipas was sentenced to 9 years in jail, however in December of that very same 12 months his protection obtained a movement to have the sentence diminished. The decide of the Federal Courtroom of the Southern District of Texas decided that the 108-month sentence imposed on him could be modified to 91 months, a time period that may expire in November.
Nevertheless, in response to info corroborated yesterday on the web page net BOP official Yarrington Ruvalcaba, 67, recognized with registration quantity 39549-479, was launched 9 days in the past.
It was reported that till yesterday, the US authorities have been holding the previous official in a detention middle till his immigration standing was resolved, since he doesn’t have a visa or US citizenship.
In the meantime, Mexico has an arrest warrant in pressure towards the previous governor of Tamaulipas for the alleged crime of cash laundering within the quantities of 12.7 million pesos and 450 thousand {dollars}.
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– 2024-07-19 20:11:49
