A former Mexican law enforcement official once in charge of the country's battle against drug trafficking helped the Sinaloa cartel build a 'global cocaine empire' in exchange for millions of dollars in bribes, a U.S. prosecutor said on Wednesday.
Mexico's former Public Security Minister Genaro Garcia Luna sits in the courtroom during his trial on charges that he accepted millions of dollars to protect the powerful Sinaloa Cartel, once run by imprisoned drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, at U.S. court in New York City, U.S., February 14, 2023 in this courtroom sketch.
In closing arguments at Genaro Garcia Luna's trial in federal court in Brooklyn, prosecutor Saritha Komatireddy told jurors the cartel once run by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman could not have shipped drugs from Mexico to the United States without Garcia Luna's complicity. "These leaders paid the defendant bribes for protection - and they got what they paid for," Komatireddy said, referring to Guzman and two other top-ranking Sinaloa cartel figures.
Garcia Luna, she said, "used his official government position to make millions of dollars for himself from the people he was supposed to prosecute." Garcia Luna, one of the highest-ranking Mexican officials ever accused of helping drug cartels, led Mexico's Federal Investigation Agency from 2001 to 2005 and was public security minister from 2006 to 2012. He worked closely with U.S. counter-narcotics and intelligence agencies as part of former president Felipe Calderon's crackdown on cartels.
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