

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Top directors in Mexico’s National Guard and elsewhere in the state security apparatus have been purged due to their ties with a former security secretary now held on drug trafficking charges in the United States.
Current Security Secretary Alfonso Durazo said Tuesday that two general directors from the National Guard, as well as officials from the penitentiary system and the National Intelligence Center had been relieved of their duties. In total some 18 officials had been removed in recent months because of their ties to Genaro García Luna, he said.
“They are positions of trust, consequently they can be removed from responsibility precisely due to the loss of trust,” Durazo said.
U.S. prosecutors allege García Luna took tens of millions of dollars in bribes to protect Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s Sinaloa cartel. García Luna, who is awaiting trial in New York, has denied the allegations.
García Luna led Mexico’s Federal Investigation Agency from 2001 to 2005, and from 2006 to 2012 served as Mexico’s secretary of public security before relocating to the U.S. He was arrested in December in Texas.
“There aren’t criminal cases (against those relieved) because they aren’t being fired because they’ve found some irregularity in their performance,” Durazo said. “But we can’t be naive on this topic and we know that the network of complicity is woven when the professional careers grow in parallel, in this case to García Luna.”
“They were in the atmosphere of direct subordination to García Luna, direct or immediate,” Durazo said.
Last week, U.S. prosecutors announced charges against two other former high-ranking Mexican security officials also accused of accepting millions in bribes from the Sinaloa cartel.
Former Federal Police commanders Luis Cardenas Palomino and Ramon Pequeno Garcia had not been arrested.
Comments
more recommended stories
Kanasín police officers prevent a man from committing suicide on a Periférico bridge
A man climbed the bridge located.
Alvaro Leyva, a negotiator between the Marxist FARC rebels and the Colombian government announced as new cabinet member
Colombia’s leftist president-elect Gustavo Petro named.
Rudy Giuliani is assaulted by a grocery store employee In Staten Island
Controversial former New York City Mayor.
Yucatan’s Ie-Tram transport system will be the only one of its kind in all of Latin America
Mexico’s Yucatán governor Mauricio Vila has.
Gay Pride Parade: Hundreds of thousands march in Mexico City
Authorities were expecting as many as.
The end of an era? Texas abortion clinic abruptly shuts down
The phones started ringing, as they.
Woman climber dies while off-limits at Popocatepetl volcano
A woman mountain climber in Mexico.
Seven bodies found in Chikindzonot could be the persons reported missing near Chetumal
Seven bodies were found in a.
2 systems threaten the Yucatan Peninsula: 1 in the Gulf, 1 in the Atlantic
The National Hurricane Center has its.
Yucatecan Educational community stands out at the national level with socially responsible projects
Students and teachers from Yucatan stand.
Leave a Comment