Garcia Luna was public security minister between 2006 and 2012. He was accused of allowing the Sinaloa drug cartel to smuggle cocaine in exchange for bribes.
A key prosecution witness testified Monday that he delivered millions of dollars in payoffs destined for former Mexican public safety chief Genaro García Luna but that the two didn’t directly discuss what the money was allegedly buying: impunity for the infamous Sinaloa cartel. Former member Jesús “El Rey” Zambada testified at García Luna’s U.S. drug…
Garcia Luna, she said, "used his official government position to make millions of dollars for himself from the people he was supposed to prosecute." Garcia Luna, one of the highest-ranking Mexican officials ever accused of helping drug cartels, led Mexico's Federal Investigation Agency from 2001 to 2005 and was public security minister from 2006 to 2012.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Closing arguments are set to begin on Wednesday in the U.S. trial of a former senior Mexican law enforcement official once in cha.
Admitted drug traffickers who testified against a former Mexican law enforcement official accused by the United States of taking millions of dollars in bribes from the Sinaloa cartel have "incredible