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Anne Milgram, administrator of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), reiterated that the sentence against García Luna sends a clear message “to corrupt leaders around the world who use their positions of power to help to the cartels.”
“García Luna accepted millions of dollars in bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel to allow millions of kilograms of cocaine to flood the streets of the United States. Instead of protecting the citizens of Mexico, García Luna protected the drug cartels. The DEA will continue to relentlessly pursue drug trafficking organizations and those who protect them,” he added.
For his part, Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, He maintained that “after years of deception and destructive drug trafficking” the former Secretary of Public Security, Genaro García Luna, will spend almost 39 years in prison in a federal prison, which represents that no official is above the law.
In a statement released by the United States Department of Justice, the prosecutor considered that the sentence against the former secretary during Felipe Calderón’s six-year term “is a fundamental step in the defense of justice” by pointing out that García Luna betrayed his country. and allowed the importation of more than one million kilograms of drugs into United States territory.
What did the prosecutor say?
“The sentence handed down today against Genaro García Luna is a fundamental step in the defense of justice and the rule of law. His betrayal of the public trust and the people he had sworn to protect resulted in the importation of more than one million kilograms of lethal narcotics into our communities.s and unleashed incalculable violence here and in Mexico. “This sentence sends a strong message that no one, regardless of their position or influence, is above the law.”
“After years of deception and destructive drug trafficking, García Luna will spend almost 40 years where he belongs: in a federal prison,” he said.
On Wednesday, October 16, Genaro García Luna was sentenced to 38 years, 8 months in prison, luego that he was found guilty of conspiring to traffic cocaine with the Sinaloa Cartel and Los Beltrán Leyva.
What happened at García Luna’s sentencing?
With exclusive information from MILLENNIUMit was learned that during the sentencing hearing against the former Secretary of Public Security, Genaro García Luna, Judge Brian Cogan told him that he maintains a double life, regarding the letter that the Mexican presented on Tuesday, October 15.
The judge indicated that despite the elegant clothes with which the former Mexican official dresses and the statements that he respects the law, his conduct is the same as that of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, El Chapoco-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel.
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