NEW YORK, Jan 24 — A once-powerful Mexican government minister betrayed his country by engaging in the very drug trafficking he was in charge of stopping, US prosecutors said at...
NEW YORK, Jan 24 — A once-powerful Mexican government minister betrayed his country by engaging in the very drug trafficking he was in charge of stopping, US prosecutors said at his trial Monday.
“He is a man who betrayed his country and ours,” added the prosecutor, as the 54-year-old Garcia Luna looked on from the dock, sometimes blowing kisses to his wife and daughter. Guzman is serving a life sentence in the United States after being convicted by a jury in Brooklyn in 2019. But prosecutors say that in exchange for millions of dollars, Garcia Luna agreed not to interfere with drug shipments, tipped off traffickers about law enforcement operations, targeted rival cartel members for arrest and placed other corrupt officials in positions of power.A former Sinaloa member said at Guzman’s trial that he had delivered suitcases containing at least US$6 million in cash to Garcia Luna at a restaurant in 2005, 2006 and 2007.
He said the government’s case would rely mainly on witnesses with an axe to grind, as Garcia Luna had helped imprison them.
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