The conviction is a significant development in a long-standing battle against organized crime in Mexico. MORE ⬇️
Mexico's former top security official who was the frontman for the country's violent war against powerful crime groups was convicted on Tuesday in New York of taking millions of dollars in bribes from drug cartels.
After a trial that lasted several weeks, jurors came to a unanimous decision after hearing testimony from around six long-time narco-traffickers who accused García Luna of living a double life while running a government agency in Mexico seen as the country's equivalent to the F.B.I. Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador jumped on the news of the verdict using it for political gain against the opposition party, under which García Luna served for over 10 years.
DEA Administrator Anne Milgram, said, “Garcia Luna, the former Secretary of Public Security in Mexico, received millions of dollars in bribes from the Sinaloa cartel in exchange for protecting its drug trafficking activities and facilitating the importation of cocaine and other drugs into the United States."
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