Mexico’s former drugs tsar Genaro Garcia Luna convicted for aiding El Chapo cartel
by Reuters in New York from World news | The Guardian on (#6937M)
Garcia Luna took millions in bribes from Sinaloa gang, Brooklyn corruption trial told
A former Mexican law enforcement official once in charge of the fight against drug traffickers has been convicted at a US corruption trial over his ties to the Sinaloa cartel.
Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn said Genaro Garcia Luna accepted millions of dollars in bribes from the cartel once run by Joaquin El Chapo" Guzman in exchange for protection from arrest, safe passage for cocaine shipments and tipoffs about forthcoming law enforcement operations.
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