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The Prosecution of the United States and the Genaro García Luna’s defense, former secretary of Public Security of Mexico, requested this Friday at judge from New York, Brian Cogan, which will lead this trial for drug trafficking and false testimonies, 60 days between next Tuesday’s hearing and the next one.
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The judge is expected take a decision about it during the audience that García Luna will have on Tuesday in the federal court for the district of New York, in Brooklyn, where also It was carried out the judgment against Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, whose supposedly García Luna received bribes.
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The request is contained in a letter which was sent this Friday to judge Cogan, which condemned “El Chapo”, to life imprisonment in 2019, and in which the prosecutor Richard Donoghue and his assistants Micheal Robotti, Ryan Harris and Erin Reid, he requested to designate the trial against the former Secretary of Public Security during the six-year term of Felipe Calderón as a “complex case“, by voluminous evidence that have accumulated against him.
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The security secretary of Mexico under the presidency of Felipe Calderón (2006-2012), 51 years old and a mechanical engineer by profession, He was arrested on December 9 in Dallas, Texas, after the U.S. government accused him of three charges to conspire for traffic cocaine, after the testimonies several drug traffickers during the judgment to “El Chapo”Guzman, which was held between November 2018 Y February 2019.
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In the letter, the Prosecutor’s Office informs the judge that they hope to present voluminous evidence which continue to collect related to the alleged corrupt behavior of the Mexican official, who sand extends to at least 20 years and that includes financial recordss, of properties and of his naturalization process. Also evidence confiscated and another requested from other countries and more recovered from electronics devices.
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According to official documents shown by the journalist Keegan Hamilton in social networks, the United States Department of Justice has tons of evidence against Genaro García Luna.
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In his Twitter account, Hamilton explains that prosecutors have accumulated bulky amounts from evidences that are increasingly discovering García Luna’s performance for two decades.
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Precise that the seized material allegedly prove the guilt of the former Secretary of Security of Mexico, and that will be released the next January 21st when García Luna appears before the New York Court. He confirmed that the evidence includes material provided by other countries to the United States with which he has international treaties.
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The government of United States accuses García Luna from accept millions of dollars in bribes of “El Chapo” Guzmán between 2001 and 2012 in exchange of provide protection to the Sinaloa Cartel for their drug trafficking activities.
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Between 2001 and 2005, Genaro García Luna He directed the Federal Research Agency (AFI), created in 2001 under the presidency of the panista Vicente Fox Quesada, who appointed him in office, and of 2006 to 2012 It was Secretary of Public Security, which the Federal Police controlled, under the presidency of also panist Felipe Calderón Hinojosa.
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García Luna faced his first audience last January 3 after being brought to New York from Texas to face the charges in the federal court of Brooklyn and the Judge Peggy Kuo denied him leave it in bail, decision that was supported by the Prosecutor’s Office. If found guilty in conspiracy charges, García Luna will face a judgment mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison Y maximum from life imprisonment.
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