The former Mexican Secretary of Public Security, Genaro García Luna, was sentenced this Wednesday in a New York courtroom to sentences totaling greater than 38 years in jail in addition to a two million greenback tremendous, for drug trafficking and organized crime crimes, and for having benefited from tens of millions of {dollars} paid by the Sinaloa Cartel.
García Luna, 56, who listened undaunted to the sentence, was the head of public safety throughout the six-year time period of Felipe Calderónin the authorities from 2006 to 2012, a time in which he was accountable for the complete anti-drug technique.
Judge Brian Cogan, in his closing speech in which he learn the sentence, accused him of getting led a double life, “combining his function in a beloved household with one other as a facilitator of a giant felony enterprise” at the service of the Sinaloa cartel.
It is about the highest Mexican official convicted up to now in the United Statesand his case joins that of different leaders, akin to former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, sentenced final June to 45 years in jail, additionally for drug trafficking crimes.
