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Genaro García Luna, Mexico’s former public safety secretary and architect of its lethal and protracted conflict on medication, was discovered responsible in federal court docket in New York on Tuesday of taking bribes from the drug cartels he had sworn to fight, the US Lawyer’s Workplace stated.
The previous Secretary of Public Safety in Mexico, who served from 2006 to 2012, was convicted by a federal jury in Brooklyn on 5 counts of participating in a seamless felony enterprise, together with worldwide cocaine distribution conspiracy, conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine, conspiracy to import cocaine and making false statements, in response to the US Lawyer’s Workplace for the Japanese District of New York.
He’s the highest-ranking present or former Mexican official ever tried in the USA.
His trial earlier than US District Choose Brian M. Cogan, who additionally oversaw the trial of former Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, lasted 4 weeks. The Courtroom of the Japanese District of New York jury introduced the decision after 15 days of hearings and having heard the testimony of 27 witnesses.
García Luna, 54, pleaded not responsible to all fees and might attraction the ruling.
He will probably be sentenced June 27. He faces a compulsory minimal sentence of 20 years’ in jail and a most of life behind bars.
“Garcia Luna, who as soon as stood on the pinnacle of regulation enforcement in Mexico, will now stay the remainder of his days having been revealed as a traitor to his nation and to the sincere members of regulation enforcement who risked their lives to dismantle drug cartels,” Breon Peace, US Lawyer for the Japanese District of New York stated in an announcement.
