New York, Oct 17, 2024 (AFP) - Mexico's ex-security chief sentenced to over 38 years in US prison

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2024-10-17

Mexico's former top security official Genaro Garcia Luna was sentenced to more than 38 years in a US prison on Wednesday for aiding the very drug cartels he was tasked with dismantling. Garcia Luna, 56, was convicted at a high-profile trial in New York last year of taking millions of dollars in bribes to allow the Sinaloa Cartel to smuggle tons of cocaine. District Judge Brian Cogan sentenced Garcia Luna, who served as secretary of public securit......

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