The head of the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP), Pablo Gómez Álvarez, when giving details of the García Luna case, reported that the process against this former official will be reopened in January 2025 in Miami, United States, since it is currently in the evidentiary discovery phase to provide evidence.
“According to the judge, the trial should open in January 2025. They are a bit slow, but it is open and has not been a problem so far. Mexico has obtained 7 approved resolutions,” the official explained this Wednesday during the morning press conference of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Giving details of the case, Alvarez said that there are two complaints in Mexico against Genaro Garcia Luna, former federal Secretary of Security during the government of former President Felipe Calderon, and stressed that to date 61 arrest warrants have been issued.
He also recalled that one of García Luna’s partners, Jonathan Alexis Winberg, whom Gómez accused of being one of the main actors within the former official’s corruption network, is awaiting extradition in Spain.
“Jonathan Alexis Weinberg Pinto, one of those involved in the corrupt scheme, is of Mexican nationality and I believe also American. His extradition has been requested by the Mexican government, we hope he will be extradited from Spain. He is one of the most significant people from the point of view of 151 million dollars, of this money, we can identify that he collected it, he returned 76 million to Mexico,” said the official.
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Gómez recalled that 16 companies related to García Luna and his partners have been detected that received illegal funds through invoices or false accounting.
On Wednesday, the director of El Sol de México, Hiroshi Takahasi, reported in his column “El Espectador,” published in this same newspaper, that the U.S. government responded to García Luna that he did belong to the Sinaloa Cartel.
In the column, Takahasi notes that the U.S. government told García Luna’s lawyers that his client did participate “with the Sinaloa Cartel and accepted tens of millions of dollars in bribes in exchange for helping the Sinaloa Cartel import large quantities of cocaine into the United States.”
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The U.S. government has therefore requested that the Probation Department “decline to modify these paragraphs of the Presentential Investigation Report dated April 19, 2024.”
2024-07-03 16:04:36
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