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Former Mexican security official sentenced to 38 years in prison for taking cartel bribes

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Genaro Garcia Luna, a former Mexican government official, was convicted of taking millions of dollars in bribes to protect the Sinaloa cartel in 2023. The conviction, obtained in New York, makes him the highest-level Mexican government official to be convicted in the US. At his sentencing hearing, Luna maintained his innocence. Luna was sentenced to 38 years and 4 months in prison, the longest possible prison sentence for the crime. Prosecutors had argued for a life sentence, stating that Luna took millions of dollars in bribes to allow the Sinaloa Cartel to smuggle tons of cocaine.

  1. MX
    Claudia Sheinbaum
    Morena Party
    1. The big issue here is how someone who was awarded by United States agencies, who ex-President Calderon said wonderful things about his security secretary, today is prisoner in the United States because it's shown that he was tied to drug trafficking.
    2. Prosecutors in the United States, and a jury in the United States, have provided evidence of his ties to drug-trafficking, and the benefits he received for being involved with drug trafficking, at the very moment in which a war on drugs had been declared.
  2. MX
    Felipe Calderón Hinojosa
    National Action Party
    1. I am in favor of those who break the law assuming the consequences of their actions.
  3. MX
    Genaro García Luna
    National Action Party
    1. I am not the person that the criminals point to.
    2. I have not committed any of these crimes.
  4. US
    Breon Peace
    US Attorney's Office
    1. Today's sentencing of Genaro Garcia Luna is a critical step in upholding justice and the rule of law.
    2. His betrayal of the public trust and the people he was sworn to protect resulted in more than one million kilograms of lethal narcotics imported into our communities and unleashed untold violence here and in Mexico.
  5. US
    Saritha Komatireddy
    US Attorney's Office
    1. He enabled the cartel. He protected the cartel. He was the cartel.
    2. It may not have been the defendant pulling the trigger, but he has blood on his hands.
  6. US
    Brian Cogan
    US Department of Justice
    1. Aside from your pleasant demeanor and your articulateness, you have the same thuggishness as El Chapo.
    2. You are guilty of these crimes, sir. You can't parade these words and say, 'I'm police officer of the year.'

sources

  1. 1.The Times of India
  2. 2.The New York Times
  3. 3.France 24
  4. 4.The Washington Post
  5. 5.The Guardian
  6. 6.Agence France-Presse
  7. 7.Times

perspectives

  1. 1.Corruption
  2. 2.Organized crime
  3. 3.Mexican Cartels
  4. 4.Drug Trafficking
  5. 5.Cocaine
  6. 6.Fentanyl Crisis

countries

  1. 1.MexicoMX
  2. 2.United StatesUS

organizations

  1. 1.Metropolitan Detention Center
  2. 2.Federal Bureau of InvestigationUS
  3. 3.Sinaloa Cartel
  4. 4.US Marshals Service
  5. 5.Federal District Court
  6. 6.Merida Initiative
  7. 7.US Drug Enforcement Agency

persons

  1. 1.Genaro García LunaMX
  2. 2.Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman
  3. 3.César De Castro
  4. 4.Brian CoganUS
  5. 5.Barack ObamaUS
  6. 6.Breon PeaceUS
  7. 7.Claudia SheinbaumMX
  8. 8.Hillary Clinton
  9. 9.Alan Feuer
  10. 10.Ana Maria SalazarUS
  11. 11.Andrés Manuel López ObradorMX
  12. 12.Anne MilgramUS
Former Mexican security official sentenced to 38 years in prison for taking cartel bribes