Mexico’s ex-public security chief sentenced to 38-plus years in US prison for taking cartel bribes

Mexico’s ex-public security chief sentenced in US for taking cartel bribes

A U.S. court has sentenced Mexico’s former public security chief to more than 38 years in prison for taking bribes to aid drug traffickers.

Anabella González (CNN Español) - When Judge Brian Cogan sentenced the former Secretary of Public Security of Mexico, Genaro García Luna, to 460 months in prison (more than 38 years in prison), a fine of US$ 2 million and five years of probation, he spoke of a “double life” of the former Mexican official and compared him to the former head of the Sinaloa cartel, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. Wearing a blue suit, white shirt and purple striped tie, …

Former Mexico 'drug czar' sentenced to 38 years in prison in the US

The NewsA US court sentenced Mexico’s former public security chief to 38 years in prison for accepting bribes from the very drug cartels his office was meant to target. Genaro García Luna was originally arrested in 2019 and ultimately found guilty last year of, among other things, providing intelligence to the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel in exchange for huge sums of money. “He helped the cartel, he protected the cartel, he was the cartel,” said…

Mexico’s ex-security chief jailed for 38 years in US for taking cartel bribes

The man once heralded as the architect of Mexico's war on drug cartels has been sentenced to more than 38 years in a US prison for taking massive bribes to aid drug traffickers.

Mexico ex-drug czar sentenced to more than 38 years in U.S. prison over cartel bribes

Genaro Garcia Luna, who led Mexico’s fight against the country’s violent drug trade, was sentenced to more than 38 years in U.S. prison for accepting bribes from the cartels he was supposed to fight.

Former security minister Genaro García Luna is said to have covered up a powerful drug cartel in Mexico for more than a decade. A US federal court has now sentenced him to a long prison term.