Salvador Cienfuegos is transferred to New York

A federal judge in Los Angeles ordered the transfer to New York of Salvador Cienfuegos, former Secretary of National Defense, accused of drug trafficking in the United States and where at least four charges will be presented.

Sources of US federal authorities in Los Angeles confirmed the transfer, but did not want to specify when it was carried out, they only indicated that it was done under the strictest security measures and against the pandemic.

The accusation against Cienfuegos originates in a federal court in Brooklyn, New York, and is linked to that of the former Nayarit prosecutor, Edgar Veytia, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for drug trafficking.

The United States Marshals Service has already transferred the former Mexican Secretary of National Defense to New York from Los Angeles, who faces charges for allegedly receiving bribes from the Beltrán Leyva Cartel during Enrique Peña Nieto’s administration, Foreign Ministry sources said. Mexican and the US government to Univision News.

Cienfuegos Zepeda, 72, He was arrested on October 15 when he arrived with his family at the Los Angeles, California airport. For just over two weeks he was in federal custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in that city.

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