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Six luxurious properties in Florida, United States, with a value of more than five million dollars, were acquired between August and November 2018, for which he was Secretary of Public Security during the six-year term of Felipe Calderón.
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Genaro García Luna and his wife Linda Cristina Pereyra bought luxury apartments and offices, as stated by journalist Anabel Hernández in a report, which yesterday, at her press conference, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador made reference and revealed that his government is looking for the United States to return resources and assets that have been confiscated from Mexican drug dealers and politicians, in exchange for replenishing extradition processes.
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“We are attending to this, procedures that are not done well are being replenished and procedures are being done. There is cooperation from the United States government, in particular the Treasury and the State Department They are helping for extraditions and a strategy is also being defined so that the resources, the funds are returned to Mexico. We are also working on this, ”said López Obrador.
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He added that the United States is collaborating for this purpose: “Many politicians and influence dealers bought property in the United States. Now that they have these processes, they are looking for these properties to be considered of our country, the amounts, and there is a provision from the United States government so that resources are recovered and go to the Institute to Return the Stolen to the People, that is, we are doing this. ”
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Genaro García Luna, former Secretary of Public Security, He was arrested last December in the US, and is accused of receiving millionaire bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel, in addition to using security forces to provide protection to that criminal group.
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The Federal Prosecutor for the Eastern District of New York accuses García Luna, who He was arrested on December 9 in Dallas, Texas, of three charges of conspiring to traffic cocaine to the US and another for false testimonies.
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According to federal prosecutor Richard Donoghue, “García Luna is accused of accepting millions of dollars in bribes from Chapo Guzmán while he controlled the Federal Police “ and was responsible for security in Mexico.
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The indictment also maintains that between 2001 and 2012 he accepted bribes in exchange for provide protection to the Sinaloa Cartel for its drug trafficking activities.
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Between 2001 and 2005 García Luna directed the Federal Research Agency (AFI) of Mexico (created in 2001 under the residence of Vicente Fox) and of 2006 to 2012 was the Secretary of Public Security, which controls the Federal Police, under the presidency of Felipe Calderón.
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García Luna was arrested after the testimonies of several drug traffickers during the trial of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, in which the drug dealer was sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Among them, Jesus “El Rey” Zambada, former chief of operations of the Sinaloa Cartel, said he bribed García Luna, with whom he said he had met in a restaurant twice, and that in each of them he had handed him money.
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To be found guilty by the US authorities, and to sue the property of the former official, as he has done with Mexican drug traffickers; García Luna could be confiscated these six luxurious properties he bought in Florida.
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In August 2018, the United States had already begun the investigation against the former secretary, yet García Luna and his wife bought properties for 5.10 million dollars, about 96 million pesos.
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These are four offices in a medical tower, an office and an apartment, located in a commercial and residential complex at Aventura ParkSquare, in Aventura, Florida.
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The luxurious and modern complex was designed by the office of Zyscovich Architects. It is located in the heart of Aventura, a modern commercial and residential area located between North Miami Beach and Hallandale Beach, and is part of Miami-Dade County.
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The properties now discovered were acquired directly by the companies GL & Associates Consulting LLC, created by García Luna on December 4, 2012, according to the charter of the company obtained in the public registry of the Florida Division of Corporations. And the Delta Integrator LLC company created on April 25, 2013 by Linda Cristina Pereyra, who remained as President, Secretary and Treasurer of the company. And in November of that same year, Genaro García Luna was added as the owner of the company with his wife.
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The office, in all luxury, was the first property they acquired. The owner is GL & Associates Consulting LLC, and was purchased on August 30, 2018 for the amount of 1.22 million dollars, according to the journalistic investigation.
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That same company in Mexico is being investigated by the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of the Ministry of Finance for receiving public resources from the Treasury of the Federation and the Ministry of the Interior from 2013 to 2018.
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As reported by Santiago Nieto, The head of the FIU, the government of Mexico City, in the administration of Miguel Ángel Mancera, at least 31.3 million pesos would have been triangulated to GLAC. Said money would have reached the bank accounts of García Luna and her family.
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The luxury apartment, located in the same complex, consists of three bedrooms and three bathrooms. Private balconies, panoramic windows from floor to ceiling, in addition to the tower has a pool and gym. The property was purchased for 898 thousand dollars in September 2018 through the company Delta Integrator LLC.
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Three days after starting the trial of “El Chapo”, García Luna and his wife acquired in a single operation 4 luxury offices in the aforementioned complex, for which they paid 2.98 million dollars.
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According to real estate broker information miamifl.casa, the former secretary of state, now arrested, is trying to sell the six properties, giving the sum of 3.22 million dollars.
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But it is not only these goods that could be confiscated
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A mansion with its own jetty, as well as an amazing department, located in Florida, are part of the luxurious life that led the drug-related politician, Genaro García Luna.
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After his retirement as secretary of Public Security in 2012, García Luna went to live in Miami, where he spent his days in full comfort and luxuries in a residence located in Golden Beach, Florida, in the United States.
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That mansion, valued in USD 3.3 million account with four bathrooms, pool, four bedrooms and even own jetty.
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Property owners They are the Weinberg family, who have a business group dedicated to supplying Israeli security equipment and technology in Latin America and represents their link with the politician.
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The residence was located thanks to a traffic ticket made to García Luna for passing a traffic light on November 15, 2015.
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However, residence records proved that he lived there, in February 2013, three months after finishing his position as an official in the six-year term of former President Felipe Calderón.
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In 2016, García Luna moved to another luxury penthouse, valued at USD 2.3 million and located in a condominium in Florida.
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The luxurious apartment where he lived until 2018, It has six rooms, five bathrooms, a kitchen and views of the sea and the city of Aventura, where it is located.
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In addition, the building that houses that luxurious penthouse has tennis courts, two swimming pools and a spa.
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Both properties were of the Weinberg family and they were rented to the politician for the friendship they have maintained for years.
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Businessman Alexis Weinberg confessed in an interview, that his father, Samuel Weinberg, met the former official since he began his police career at the National Security and Research Center of Mexico (Cisen).
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He also indicated that García Luna he lived in his family’s houses when he finished his work as secretary of the SSP.
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“The house was part of our investments in Miami. We rented them to Genaro and made a contract and made deposits. When we rented the house, we rented the apartment and did the same, ”he said.
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January 3 Genaro García Luna appeared in the Eastern District court in Brooklyn, New York, where he pleaded not guilty to the charges brought against him for drug trafficking and for allegedly having accepted bribes Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
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The hearing lasted 10 minutes and the former official appeared without handcuffs or chains with a baggy sweatshirt and guarded by three policemen.
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After hearing the accusations against him, he turned to see his family insisted on his innocence. The new hearing was set for January 21.
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